269. The Mythology of Cybersyn (ft. Evgeny Morozov)
This Machine Kills
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The Geopolitical Context of Artificial Intelligence
I think that as well is yet another far more complicated kind of fold in the story that you draw out. The kind of leftist critiques also are really interesting in the sense of as we were talking about before cyber scene as this contemporary beacon of of socialist techno hope. Yet at that time it was very much being critiqued in very kind of classic ways that we would critique systems now as technocratic. Those same critiques were being levied against it but always that that geopolitical context and and whether there's any attention to the political realities of that geopolitical context or themselves coming to the fore.
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