[p2p-research] The Cybernetic Hypothesis

[Michel Bauwens]

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On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Joss Winn <joss at josswinn.org> wrote:

> For background on Tiqqun, I recommend:
>
> http://tiqqunerie.jottit.com/
>
> Agamben and their publisher, Hazan, speak about Tiqqun here:
>
>
> http://notesforthecomingcommunity.blogspot.com/2009/04/agamben-apropos-of-tiqqun.html
> (video)
>
> transcript here:
>
>
> http://anarchistwithoutcontent.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/tiqqun-apocrypha-repost/
>
> More translations can be found here:
>
> http://tiqqunista.jottit.com/
>
> and collected information about their arrest can be found here:
>
> http://www.notbored.org/tarnac.html
>
> I've just finished reading The Cybernetic Hypothesis and think that
> while the text is a ravaging critique of Cybernetics/Systems Theory as
> Capitalism and its 'tyranny of transparency', the final few chapters of
> the Hypothesis, do offer some steps forward for P2P activists, with
> their ideas around panic, Temporary Autonomous Zones, interference/fog,
> slowness and ultimately communism.
>
>
> Joss
>
>
>
> On 27/05/10 15:46, j.martin.pedersen wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 27/05/10 15:39, Denis Postle wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 5/26/2010 5:30 PM, Joss Winn wrote:
> >>> This may interest some of you. An English translation of The Cybernetic
> >>> Hypothesis, which appeared in the Tiqqun journal (2001) is now
> available:
> >>>
> >>> http://cybernet.jottit.com/
> >>>
> >>> I am quite new to this material, but my summary of it so far, is that
> >>> it's a ruthless and challenging attack on Cybernetics, which they
> equate
> >>> with modern Capitalism, both drawing on and simultaneously critiquing a
> >>> number of European intellectual traditions.
> >>>
> >>> I'm enjoying it.
> >>>
> >> Yes very valuable, thank you. Any idea of who the author(s) were?
> >
> > it emerges from the group of people around the
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiqqun journal,
> >
> > some of who were the targets of the infamous anti-terror assault on
> > liberties in France:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarnac_9
> >
> > it is a good piece in that it presents a critical side of technology
> > thinking that is absent from most the non-reflective glorification that
> > predominates cyberspace debates.
> >
> > -m
> >
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