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Mark Fisher's 'Flatline Constructs': Reading Group Wrap Up #1 (Zer0/Repeater)

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The Promethean Optimism of Cyberpunk

The cybernetic doesn't just speak to the contemporary, but I think it's particularly untimely in that way. What we see under all of this is not a computational model, but actually a dogmatic image of thought which goes at least as far back as scholastic period. And so if you look at the way that philosophy of mind is trying to apprehend and take into account second order cybernetics, there are echoes of Machiavelli too.

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