Cybernetics and the Left: Communist Synergy or Capitalist Machines?

Adam is joined by Dr James Fox to discuss the legacy of
cybernetics and organizational theory, its Leftist critics, and
the potential for a cybernetics of the commune, one which
politicizes the dynamic systems of democracy at play in worker
organizing. We discussed public attitudes to cyber-theory, the
history of the field from Wiener to Bogdanov and Stafford Beer,
and the use of machinic language from Deleuze to the CCRU.

You can read all of the pieces from James we discussed today over
at https://tektology.substack.com/

Also: Catch James' talk on his work for the COVER centre at the
University of Essex https://youtu.be/BO2LszSj9o8 

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