An early text from Tiqqun that views cybernetics as a fable of late capitalism, and offers tools for the resistance.
Tiqqun here imagines an unbearable disturbance to a System that can take only so much: only so much desertion, only so much destituent gesture, only so much guerilla attack, only so much wickedness and joy..
They may be already looking, at least in their heads, for a weapon, for a counter-strategy.
Readers of this little book are not likely to be naive.
And now the interesting question is: Has the guest in the house become the master of the house? The Cybernetic Hypothesis is strategic.
According to the authors, cybernetics is the latest master fable, welcomed at a certain crisis juncture in late capitalism.
A matter of civil war, in fact.
Not smooth.
Not so easily done.
Cybernetics in this context is the tekn of threat reduction, which unfortunately has required the reduction of a disturbing humanity to packets of manageable information.
The Cybernetic Hypothesis presents a genealogy of our technical present that doesn\'t point out the political and ethical dilemmas embedded in it as if they were puzzles to be solved, but rather unmasks an enemy force to be engaged and defeated. --from The Cybernetic Hypothesis This early Tiqqun text has lost none of its pertinence.
The cybernetician\'s mission is to combat the general entropy that threatens living beings, machines, societies--that is, to create the experimental conditions for a continuous revitalization, to constantly restore the integrity of the whole.
An early text from Tiqqun that views cybernetics as a fable of late capitalism, and offers tools for the resistance
