I didn't describe it as the science of control for a few reasons. For me, cybernetics is about selfcontrol (and is equally about communication) and for a lot of people the notion of control, especially a science of it, is a scary and unattractive idea.
Second, I describe it as a discourse and not as a science because I do not consider myself a scientist and think there are many aspects of cybernetics that are not simply scientific, and I think many of those aspects are the most interesting and potentially fruitful for the left.
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Peter Kropotkin’s anarchist vision of organization -
Marius de Geus
Anarchism and the cybernetics of self-organising systems - John D. McEwan (1963)
Introduction to C/cyb: Common Cybernetics
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I didn't describe it as the science of control for a few reasons. For me, cybernetics is about selfcontrol (and is equally about communication) and for a lot of people the notion of control, especially a science of it, is a scary and unattractive idea. Second, I describe it as a discourse and not as a science because I do not consider myself a scientist and think there are many aspects of cybernetics that are not simply scientific, and I think many of those aspects are the most interesting and potentially fruitful for the left.