nematoad [he/him] to technology • 4 years agoProject Cybersyn - Salvadore Allende's computerized planning infrastructureexternal-linkmessage-square13 fedilinkarrow-up148
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minus-squareBudwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]hexbear8·edit-24 years agoCybernetic Marxism Time? Cybernetic Marxism Time. The Cybernetic Brain - Sketches of Another Future by Andrew Pickering goes into early cybernetic developments, Beer's Cybersyn and the early ontological shift within Cybernetics. (US/USSR control systems vs. Beer's controlled systems, essentially) The People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips & Michal Rozworski is about how the most efficient economies today are largely planned by AI and about liberating 'The Algorithm'. Pretty accessible read. Digital Socialism by Evgeny Morozov; goes quite a bit into economics and the calculation debate itself, pretty in-depth; dunks on Hayek occasionally. Edit: Also, of course, Designing Freedom by Stafford Beer himself - great intro to Beer's work and his flavour of system philosophy in particular. link
Cybernetic Marxism Time? Cybernetic Marxism Time.
The Cybernetic Brain - Sketches of Another Future by Andrew Pickering goes into early cybernetic developments, Beer's Cybersyn and the early ontological shift within Cybernetics. (US/USSR control systems vs. Beer's controlled systems, essentially)
The People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips & Michal Rozworski is about how the most efficient economies today are largely planned by AI and about liberating 'The Algorithm'. Pretty accessible read.
Digital Socialism by Evgeny Morozov; goes quite a bit into economics and the calculation debate itself, pretty in-depth; dunks on Hayek occasionally.
Edit: Also, of course, Designing Freedom by Stafford Beer himself - great intro to Beer's work and his flavour of system philosophy in particular.