Cybernetics saturates the humanities. So Leif Weatherby and I guest-edited 'Cybernetics and the Human Sciences', the new issue of 'History of the Human Sciences' -- with some amazing essays— by Henning Schmidgen on Wiener, synchronization and neuroscience; David W. Bates versus Nicolas Guilhot on cybernetics and politics (David and Nicolas disagreed completely!); Danielle Carr on Arendt, behaviorism, and 'cognitive liberalism'; Diana Kurkovsky on the Soviet planning; Bernard Geoghegan and Jacob Krell on (different) moments of cybernetic influence in French thought, Christina Vagt on aesthetics and design, and Ron Kline on disunity and the second wave.
Here’s the link for the articles
And here’s our introduction!
