Meaning of cyberneticism | Babel Free

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The use of cybernetics as a problem-solving approach.

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Examples

“But this Marxian conceptual-political component of poststructuralism […] leaves an intellectual structure⟳ that is mostly the expression of early twentieth-century cyberneticisms: and no young intellectual in the late 1990s, in the midst of an information-processing upheaval, can really believe⟳ that such de-Marxified structuralism remains sufficiently up to date⟳ as an intellectual technology.”

“Cyberneticism is, finally, a refined form⟳ of scientism, and therefore it is also more dangerous. This form⟳ of scientism is not based on linear causality, as mechanistic thought is; rather, it is based on circular causality.”

“First, it is now the most familiar expression of the basic paradigm of late twentieth-century Euro-American though: the cyberneticism that produces networks, systems and rhizomes, and which generates the sense⟳ of emergence that allows non-humans to be agentive, articulate, and sensible, and to 'matter⟳' in ways that concern⟳ Earthly legality.”

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