Bear would arrive in chile for the first time in november 19 71, but he does so at the request of a young chilean engineer named fernando flores. So i same kind of turrain, one in the domain of sibernetic management and the other in theDomain of politics, that are being explored at this same time. And this actually lends itself to the connection between these two strands of thought.
Paris Marx is joined by Eden Medina to discuss Project Cybersyn, a technological system created by Chile’s socialist government in the 1970s to manage production, and what it can teach us about political technology and innovation outside the Global North.
Eden Medina is the author of “Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile.” She’s also an associate professor at MIT and the Rita E. Hauser Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Follow Eden on Twitter as @edenmedina.
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