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An early text from Tiqqun that views cybernetics as a fable of late capitalism, and offers tools for the resistance.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. -from The Cybernetic Hypothesis This early Tiqqun text has lost none of its pertinence. 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. Cybernetics in this context is the tekna of threat reduction, which unfortunately has required the reduction of a disturbing humanity to packets of manageable information. Not so easily done. Not smooth. A matter of civil war, in fact. According to the authors, cybernetics is the latest master fable, welcomed at a certain crisis juncture in late capitalism. And now the interesting question is- Has the guest in the house become the master of the house? The cybernetic hypothesis is strategic. Readers of this little book are not likely to be naive. They may be already looking, at least in their heads, for a weapon, for a counter-strategy. 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.

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PublisherAutonomedia

ISBN-139781635900927

eBay Product ID (ePID)2317484360

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Publication Year2020

SubjectGovernment, Computer Science

Number of Pages168 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameThe Cybernetic Hypothesis

TypeTextbook

AuthorTiqqun

FormatPaperback

Dimensions

Item Height178 mm

Item Width114 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Title_AuthorTiqqun

Series TitleSemiotext (E) / Intervention Series

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The Cybernetic Hypothesis by Tiqqun (Paperback, 2020)