Thank you, very useful.
The term cybernetics made sense for the enemy detection systems of a
second world war technology stack.
I am not so sure it holds much practical relevance for contemporary
digital theory.
when cybernetics was still reasonably well embedded in the academic milieu;
this was no longer the case later on.
Norbert Wiener died in the 19-sixties. Cybernetics was his Farbenlehre.
His most relevant cultural reverberation may be the Club of Rome report
1972. The Apollo tech, the lunar modules , all this could still be
understood in the analogue cybernetics terms of feedback because it
remains proto-digital.
My work is inspired by Anders’ positions. His oeuvre continues to challenge us,
as subjects living in a digital age. Even more, it now confronts us in an age
that is pervaded by so-called “genAI,” where several of its concepts are easily
attributable to phenomena that, in such concretion, it was unable to really
anticipate. That’s precisely why, in retrospect, I would say it lends much
credence to Anders’s philosophical method.
Many species evolved into 🦀 crabs: We should talk about |👻 |Geist once
again.
Best, André
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