“One day, it's going to now not be arbitrary to reframe 20th century suggestion and its clever machines as a quest for the optimistic definition of blunders, abnormality, trauma, and catastrophe—a set of strategies that must be understood
 of their cognitive, technological and political composition. it can be marvelous for a few to determine that Foucault’s background of biopower and applied sciences of the self proportion universal roots with cybernetics and its early blunders pleasant common machines. Or to benefit that the wanting machines, which “continually holiday down as they run, and actually run simply after they will not be functioning properly” (Deleuze and Guattari), have been in truth echoing learn on battle traumas and mind plasticity from the 1st international conflict. around the heritage of computation (from early cybernetics to man made intelligence and present algorithmic capitalism) either mainstream expertise and important responses to it have shared a typical trust within the determinism and positivism of the instrumental or technological rationality, to take advantage of the formulations of the Frankfurt university. Conversely, the purpose of this anthology is to rediscover the position of mistakes, trauma and disaster within the layout of clever machines and the idea of augmented cognition. those are well timed and pressing matters: the media hype of singularity taking place for synthetic intelligence looks simply to fodder a pedestrian catastrophism with out offering a easy epistemic version to border such an “intelligence explosion”.”

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6 Under this cybernetic ethos, transformation is not directed towards a distant goal that is known in advance. Instead, it follows immanent tendencies, guiding them forward—but also giving them space to evolve. The city or territory is understood here as a contingent, self-regulating resource that requires ongoing management. The goal of this management is to secure a natural equilibrium and keep emergent forces in balance. In one way, the Latin American experiment in cybernetics is the first moment when this liberal diagram goes live, the moment when “the medium of an action and the element in which it circulates” (Foucault 2007, 32) promises to come under real-time control.

In order for something to count as an input, the system had to see it in order to recognize it. This recalls Jakob von Uexküll’s concept of the Umwelt in which each organism has a world of its own compromised only of the dimensions present to its sensory apparatus. Despite the abundant and profuse continuity of the natural environment, each organism gives birth to a world by selecting only a few important markers within this space. For the organism, everything else simply does not exist. Deleuze and Guattari’s (1987) and also Agamben’s (2004) often cited use of the tick is drawn from von Uexküll and serves as an extreme example of the point.

The Cybernetic Ethos Freud’s dictum regarding the return of the repressed suggests a subconscious that never sleeps. In the Chilean episode, the historical subconscious underwent many movements of its own; socialist dreams were soon replaced by neoliberal ones. Just as in dreams, where unrelated facts can suddenly become juxtaposed without logical relation, three times in short succession Chile became a space of extreme experiment: first with constitutional socialism, second with cybernetic management, and finally with the Chicago school of economics.

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