13. Stacks That Were and Might Have Been
In 1970, British cybernetician Stafford Beer was commissioned by Unidad Popular, the new socialist Chilean government of Salvador Allende, to design the platform for a new computer-controlled econom…branch, industry, state economy, central government, and finally enveloped by the twelfth, and final, layer of the whole nation. As seen in Beer’s diagrams, layers in the system could recursively influence layers it surrounded, with any one…Sakamura’s stack was constituent and curatorial; Beer’s was constitutive and generative. Beer’s model posited a nested series of socioeconomic scales, from worker to nation, through which regulated information would be reported, analyzed, a…
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