Cyberneticism
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The use of cybernetics as a problem-solving approach. countable, uncountable
"But this Marxian conceptual-political component of poststructuralism […] leaves an intellectual structure that is mostly the expression of early twentieth-century cyberneticisms: and no young intellectual in the late 1990s, in the midst of an information-processing upheaval, can really believe that such de-Marxified structuralism remains sufficiently up to date as an intellectual technology."
Example
More examples"But this Marxian conceptual-political component of poststructuralism […] leaves an intellectual structure that is mostly the expression of early twentieth-century cyberneticisms: and no young intellectual in the late 1990s, in the midst of an information-processing upheaval, can really believe that such de-Marxified structuralism remains sufficiently up to date as an intellectual technology."
Etymology
From cybernetic + -ism.
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