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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.”...
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Jathan Sadowski
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.
Articles
Media in the Democratic State
In the face of fascism’s rising threat, why did mid-century artists and scientists imagine that media could help save democracy?...
Google-Eye View: Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen’s “The New Digital Age”
MOST AMERICANS look upon technology companies favorably, for the most part. They provide us with useful services, and their visionary executives routinely declare that their primary intention is to change the world for the better. Everyone from Al Gore to Senator ...
Silicon Gospel: Byron Reese's "Infinite Progess"
SILICON VALLEY already has a storied tradition of trying to predict the future, thanks to oracular figures such as Kevin Kelly, Clay Shirky, Jeff Jarvis, and Peter Diamandis. Yet the tech industry’s newest prophet is somehow unrivaled in his ...
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