could have as its objective a pluralistic management of the whole of the machinic constituents," wrote Guattari in the last text he ever published -- the lethal vision of a definitive civil peace between humans and non-humans.
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"Just lik…It is thus hardly surprising that communications, the realization of a common ownership of impotent knowledge that cybernetics carries out, today authorizes the most advanced ideologues to speak of "cybernetic communism," as have Dan Sperbe…
Pierre Lévy
philosopher · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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Pierre Lévy appears as a theorist who extends cybernetic thought into contemporary ideological frameworks, specifically through the concept of "cybernetic communism" that imagines shared knowledge systems as a basis for collective governance. The course readings cite him alongside Dan Sperber as an advanced ideologue attempting to reconcile cybernetic principles—particularly the notion of distributed, communicable knowledge—with communist or communal political aspirations. His work matters here insofar as it represents a particular trajectory of how cybernetics gets mobilized to reimagine social organization in the digital age.
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