Cybernetics: Or the Political Economy of Information
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science
- Location
- Russell Room, Natural History Building, 2049
- Date
- Apr 25, 2024 3:00 - 5:00 pm
- Contact
- Brian Jefferson
- bjjeffer@illinois.edu
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While communication and control engineering, neurophysiology, statistical mechanics, and digital computing are recognized for their impact on cybernetics, political economy’s influence is scarcely known. Professor Jefferson traces the role of political economy in the cybernetic description of information to stimulate discussion about socially viable modes of producing, circulating, and consuming information.