The Next Layer - cybernetics

Escape the Overcode: Activist Art in the Control Society

Brian Holmes — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:17:15 +0000

Holmes B. 2009. Escape the Overcode: Activist Art in the Control Society.

Forrester, Advertising and Consumer Market

Brian Holmes — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:38:01 +0000

This is a graph by Jay Wright Forrester from his book Industrial Dynamics, showing the expected time (in weeks) that must be allotted for distribution from the factory to wholesalers, retails, and ultimately the public (on the right side of the graph) as well as the time to be allotted for advertising to be planned, executed and achieve its end, namely the creation of "effective demand" for the product (left side of the graph).

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Guattari’s Schizoanalytic Cartographies

Armin Medosch — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:47:25 +0000

This piece by Brian Holmes contains some useful analysis of information as postmodern myth of rational control. I also blog this as a reminder to myself to that I have to read Lewis Mumford soon. The Guattari things I am less interested in, as for example Brian choses to overlook the failure of Guattari's radio project in Paris and, a bit mistakingly I suggest, calls it a tactical media project.

How We Became Posthuman : Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

Armin Medosch — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:36:39 +0000

Hayles KK. 1999. How We Became Posthuman : Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics.