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

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The History of the Macy Conferences on Cybernetics

In 1966, Dubavoir said in structuralist reason they exist neither misery nor unhappiness. That same year Sartre told another interviewer, this is a kind of important sentence: In a technocratic civilization, there's no more room for philosophy. So how did we get to this point where you have this strangely interrelated history, but actually slightly different readings between 1960s Paris and say the rise of a so-called French theory in the US? To get it that we need to jump to the next geotechnical conjunction, Dutch Bali, New York City, 1935 to 1945. And we need to start grasping a context in which it makes sense to grasp phenomena as varied

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