Sibernetics is an intellectual movement that emergesimmediately after the end of the second world war. It allows toconceptualize many different process s, including economic ones like equilibria,. Like how the brain functions. Many thinkers eventually re describe their own theories in the language of sibenatics. But it disappears from the maton conversation by late 19 60s and early 70s because its ideas become higemonic on their hone.
Featuring Evgeny Morozov on his essay "Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason." Thinkers from the Marxist left all the way to the neoliberal and even neo-reactionary right are convinced that we’ve exited capitalism entirely and entered neo-feudalism. Morozov argues that our bleak moment is in fact still a thoroughly capitalist one.
Evgeny's essay: newleftreview.org/issues/ii133/articles/evgeny-morozov-critique-of-techno-feudal-reason
Evgeny's website: evgenymorozov.com
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