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Bernard Geoghegan, “Learning to Code: From Information Theory to French Theory”

MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing

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The History of Cybernetics

Historians of science and technology have told us that cybernetics came out of hardcore engineering problems at the 1940s. The history is not wrong, it is however deeply tendentious," he says. "It is the product of a mid-century ideology of engineering and mathematics and war as sort of the shepherd" It was spearheaded by practitioners of the so-called human sciences in sites such as Bali and Burma,. He adds.

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