Jan Overwijk

Cybernetic Capitalism

A Critical Theory of the Incommunicable

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781531508920
• ISBN-10: 1531508928
• Artikelnr.: 70017406

Autorenporträt

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