Why Is Cybernetics Still Alive? On Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan’s “Code”
Jathan Sadowski lands a damning critique of Bernard Dionysiu Geoghegan’s “Code: From Information Theory to French Theory.”
Jathan Sadowski is the author of Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World (2020). He co-hosts a weekly podcast on technology and political economy called This Machine Kills. He is senior research fellow at Monash University.
Jathan Sadowski lands a damning critique of Bernard Dionysiu Geoghegan’s “Code: From Information Theory to French Theory.”
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