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S P A C E W A R: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums – by Stewart Brand

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Ready or not, computers are coming to the people. That’s good news, maybe the best since psychedelics. It’s way off the track of the “Computers – Threat or menace?” school of liberal criticism but surprisingly in line with the romantic fantasies of the forefathers of the science such as Norbert Wiener, Warren McCulloch, J.C.R. Licklider, [...]

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Bateson: The Cybernetics of Self

Friday, April 27, 2012

A systems / information theoretic evaluation of AA’s “first three steps”… required reading for anyone interested in the underpinnings of addiction and of G. Bateson’s path-breaking work with schizophrenics at the Palo Alto VA. (Just google the title for a free PDF version… peep the abstract below) The cybernetics of “self”: A theory of alcoholism. [...]

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