180. (Preview) 21st Century Cybernetics PT. 1: A History of Feedback Loops

First hour, for full 3 hour episode, show notes, documentation, and more consider supporting here Part one of a series on Cybernetics of the Future aka "how smart people end up dumb". Instead of retreading well-told examples of the 20th century we go to Leibniz, Yuk Hui, U/ACC, Muller, Ampere, etc. to figure out its ambience and omnipresence in culture, politics, the human (?) spirit, and more. Not another Reddit Rundown of Project Cybersyn: this episode looks at a comprehensive view of the Feedback Loop and its place in general history (I Ching to creator burnout to shock jock pseudo-vitalism) starting with: Brunella Antomarini's excellent essay Translating Rationalism: Leibniz and Cybernetics, Tek Lintowe's amazing rant on Being Raw, Cliodynamics, Leibniz debunking both Newtonian Mechanism and Spinozist Nominalism, China's One Child Policy, didactic fashion shows, a history of mechanism

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