The Cybernetic Hypothesis
By: Tiqqun
4.03
Format: 100 pages, Unknown Binding
An early text from Tiqqun that views cybernetics as a fable of late capitalism, and offers tools fo…
Want to Read $ 8.99"He [Karl Deutsch] recommended abandoning the old concept that power was sovereign, which had too long been the essence of politics. To govern would become a rational coordination of the flows of information and decisions that circulate through the social body. Three conditions would need to be met, he said: an ensemble of 'capturers' would have to be installed so that no information originating from the “subjects"-Tiqqun, The Cybernetic Hypothesis
"He [Karl Deutsch] recommended abandoning the old concept that power was sovereign, which had too long been the essence of politics. To govern would become a rational coordination of the flows of information and decisions that circulate through the social body. Three conditions would need to be met, he said: an ensemble of 'capturers' would have to be installed so that no information originating from the “subjects"-Tiqqun, The Cybernetic Hypothesis
"There is the space of encounters which allow one to trace out an absolute limit to the analogy between the social world and the physical world. This is basically because two particles never encounter one another except where their rupture phenomena can be deduced from laboratory observations. The encounter is that durable instant where intensities manifest between the forms-of-life present in each individual. It is, even above the social and communications, the territory that actualizes the potentials of bodies and actualizes itself in the differences of intensity that they give off and comprise. Encounters are above language, outside of words, in the virgin lands of the unspoken, in suspended animation, a potential of the world which is also its negation, its “power to not be."-Tiqqun, The Cybernetic Hypothesis
"There is the space of encounters which allow one to trace out an absolute limit to the analogy between the social world and the physical world. This is basically because two particles never encounter one another except where their rupture phenomena can be deduced from laboratory observations. The encounter is that durable instant where intensities manifest between the forms-of-life present in each individual. It is, even above the social and communications, the territory that actualizes the potentials of bodies and actualizes itself in the differences of intensity that they give off and comprise. Encounters are above language, outside of words, in the virgin lands of the unspoken, in suspended animation, a potential of the world which is also its negation, its “power to not be."-Tiqqun, The Cybernetic Hypothesis
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Format: 164 pages, Paperback
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2. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman
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"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
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"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
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7. The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society
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23. The Selected Poems
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25. Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures
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26. How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle: Nietzsche and Marx for the Twenty-First Century
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"The forces which dominate us, despite their immense power, are never concrete, visible, tangible — we live under the shadow of their abstract domination. Our activity is for the most part instrumenta…"-Jonas Čeika, How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle: Nietzsche and Marx for the Twenty-First Century
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27. The Cybernetic Hypothesis
By: Tiqqun
4.03
Format: 100 pages, Unknown Binding
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28. Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction
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30. Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
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31. Recursivity and Contingency (Media Philosophy Book 1)
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"Recursion is the movement that tirelessly integrates contingency into its own functioning to realize its telos. In so doing it generates an impenetrable complexity in the course of time. Organisms ex…"-Yuk Hui, Recursivity and Contingency (Media Philosophy Book 1)
