What is it about?
Cybernetics and government from the perspective philosophers Gilles Deleuze's Societies of Control, through ideas of stability and chaos.
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Why is it important?
Draws connections between French philosophy and American science, drawing out comparisons that are sometimes difficult for those who are only experts in one of the fields. It's also relevant to ideas of government, power, and politics.
Perspectives
More of a humanities approach rather than a social scientific one, including interdisciplinary examples literature, art, and culture.
Andrew Culp
California Institute of the Arts
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This page is a summary of: Control after Cybernetics: Governmentality as Navigation by Homeostasis and Chaos, symplokē, January 2020, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.5250/symploke.28.1-2.0117.
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