This article by Lars Bang Larsen in Mute's latest issue (Vol 3 #1)
should be of interest to some of you... it investigates the delicate
balance between (negative) feedback as a means of creating static
systems of control and (positive) feedback as autopoietic and
anti-disciplinary means... both of which intersect and play off each
other in the political and cultural forms of the cold war period....
http://linkme2.net/pn
Anti-Disciplinary Feedback and the Will to Effect
By Lars Bang Larsen
The recursive forms of feedback made strange bedfellows out of cold war
cybernetics and tripped-out psychedelia. In a reworking of a talk given
at the Showroom gallery's Signal:Noise event, Lars Bang Larsen reads
counter-cultural ‘good vibrations' literally and politically
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See also:
Mute Vol 3 #1 - Double Negative Feedback
'Double Negative Feedback' expresses the hope that the chaos unleashed
by the cybernetic loops of financialisation, post-Fordist production and
networked life might not only be entropic and exploitative. The noise
generated by 'positive feedback' also takes the form of the explosions
we are seeing in the Arab world, the anti-disciplinary uses of
cybernetic control systems, the 'shared precarity' of compositional
improvising, and the ripples of a political organising that no longer
assumes a common identity but instead acknowledges our common vulnerability.
http://www.metamute.org/en/magazine/mute-vol-3-1-double-negative-feedback
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