Been reading The Cybernetic Brain by Andrew Pickering, it's a history/sociological analysis of mostly British cybernetics and then basically a 'Why it's useful for Socialism now' section at the end. Got it because a major part of it is about Stafford Beer who ran Project Cybersyn and whose ideas it was designed around. Which of course got Pinochet'ed before it could really flourish but it's interesting nonetheless. It's written well but holy fuck is it a big/dense book.
Been reading The Cybernetic Brain by Andrew Pickering, it's a history/sociological analysis of mostly British cybernetics and then basically a 'Why it's useful for Socialism now' section at the end. Got it because a major part of it is about Stafford Beer who ran Project Cybersyn and whose ideas it was designed around. Which of course got Pinochet'ed before it could really flourish but it's interesting nonetheless. It's written well but holy fuck is it a big/dense book.