Frictions

Frictions is a collective invitation to embrace the space of difference that both connects and separates techno-scientific discourses from their actual implementations—or even, from their non-implementations.

Frictions

Inquiries into Cybernetic Thinking and Its Attempts towards Mate[real]ization

Frictions is a collective invitation to embrace the space of difference that both connects and separates techno-scientific discourses from their actual implementations—or even, from their non-implementations. Through a series of case studies focused on cybernetics, systems research, and some of their more contemporary inheritors, this book argues that such a middle space, the topology of frictions, offers significant insights to assess the historical and epistemological relevance of these interconnected fields. Characterized here as cybernetic thinking, this broad area of theoretical and applied projects would conceal, precisely within its frictions, the operational principles of our present.

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Publishing Year
2023
Language
English
Pages
204
Print Edition Price
€ 24.90 RRP
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CC BY-SA 4.0
ISBNs
978-3-95796-216-4 (Print)
978-3-95796-217-1 (PDF)
DOI
10.14619/2164
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The Editor

Diego Gómez-Venegas is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Musicology and Media Sciences (Media Sciences section) of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His work focuses on the media-archaeo-genealogical traces of cybernetics and its links to our contemporary condition.

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