Cyberneticism

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

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"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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