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...The third chapter considers how technological ideas about “programming”—in cybernetics, computer science, and genetics—broadened the applications of automaton discourse and images. Such ideas were used to represent devalued forms of labor, Asian Americans, and post-Cold War fundamentalism.Selisker...

...The discourse of cybernetic systems emerges around a functional similarity in the self-regulation of mechanical and organic systems. One result of this parallel development is a tendency for informatics and cybernetics to get tangled up, their conceptual differences disregarded. This chapter...

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...This chapter assesses the implications of the computer and its applications for the present and future of work. Cybernetics is the most widely applied current means by which labor is being progressively freed from the industrial, commercial, and professional workplace. In American Marxist Harry...

...Are we made of junk? This book believes we are. Examining an array of cybernetic structures from genetic codes to communication networks, it explores the idea that most of culture and nature, including humans, is composed primarily of useless, but always potentially recyclable, material otherwise...

...This chapter predicts a scenario in which chamber music can serve as a model of social structure for the coming telematic society. The scenario involves a fabulous universe, that of technical images, and a fabulous society, that of cybernetic dialogue, as well as a fabulous consciousness...

...This chapter explores cybernetics in relation to materialism and idealism. It begins by discussing Gotthard Günther’s The Consciousness of Machines, in which he describes a genealogy of mankind’s new self-relationship via technology. All the dualisms in a row, as old as the great...

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