Cybernetic Capitalism develops a critical systems theory in order to conceptualize the cybernetic rationalization of contemporary capitalism. Today, the book argues, capital no longer aims at total communicability, but seeks to put the incommunicable to work.
Cybernetic Capitalism develops a critical systems theory in order to conceptualize the cybernetic rationalization of contemporary capitalism. Today, the book argues, capital no longer aims at total communicability, but seeks to put the incommunicable to work.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Jan Overwijk is NWO Rubicon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and Assistant Professor at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Abstract Ecologies 1 1. Critical Systems Theory: Ecological Confrontation 15 2. Spiraling into Control: Paradoxes of Thermodynamic Rationalization 55 3. The Vitalist Alternative: Sympoietic Multitudes 93 4. Cybernetic Rationalization: Valorizing the Incommunicable 121 Epilogue: Cybernetic Irrationalization 155 Acknowledgments 179 Notes 183 Bibliography 189 Index 211