Reading sessions

Cybernetic Research Unit Research Unit

Journey Map until 2021-01-22 (full size): https://ikiwiki.laglab.org/5g/Read.jpg

• 2020-10-30 Tiqqun: The Cybernetic Hypothesis notes – we read the new introduction and chapters X and IV
• 2020-11-06 Curtis: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, we watched Episode 2 (on cybernetics) – notes
• 2020-11-13 Kline: The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age, Chapter 2 (on the Macy conferences) notes
• 2020-11-20 Hofstadter: I am a Strange Loop - Chapter 13 “The Elusive Apple of My “I” (2007)
  • Victim of the brain [1988]
• 2020-11-27 The Betrayal by Technology A Portrait of Jacques Ellul
• 2020-12-20 Holmes: Escape the Overcode (2008) & Dammbeck: Das Netz (2003) notes
• 2021-01-15 Plant: Zeroes and Ones notes
• 2020-01-22 Summary session, see Journey Map above
• 2021-02-05 Mirowski and Nik-Khah: The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information notes

Drifts

• Further Considerations on Afrofuturism - Kodwo Eshun - bonus reading: The Metaphysics of Crackle: Afrofuturism and Hauntology - Mark Fisher - both these authors are CCRU®©™
• Behind Marx's Hidden Abode: For an expanded conception of capitalism - Nancy Fraser (link 1; link 2 which is better version)

References

Curtis, Adam. 2011. "All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace." Documentary series, BBC. https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6457676/BBC_All_Watched_Over_By_Machines_Of_Loving_Grace.

Dammbeck, Lutz. 2003. "Das Netz." Documentary by B Film Verleih. https://archive.org/details/DasNetz_LutzDammbeck.

Holmes, Brian. 2009. Escape the Overcode: Activist Art in the Control Society. Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum, WHW. https://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/this-book-could-be-yours/.

Mirowski, Philip, and Edward Nik-Khah. 2017. The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=4BDEF554A44E489287DEDB3F08FF8B53.

Kline, Ronald R. 2015. The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age. First edition. New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History. New York: Johns Hopkins University Press. http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=254527E594A49CE50D59528C18556C7F.

Plant, Sadie. 1997. Zeroes + Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture. Doubleday.

Tiqqun. 2012. The Cybernetic Hypothesis. The Anarchist Library. http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/tiqqun-the-cybernetic-hypothesis.

Tiqqun. 2020. The Cybernetic Hypothesis. Translated by Robert Hurley. Revised edition with a new introduction by the authors. Semiotext(e) Intervention Series. South Pasadena, CA: MIT Press; Semiotext(e).