Speakers

Cybernetics Unwired: A Critique of Cyber Capitalism

Jan 24, 2024   3:00 - 4:15 pm  
Russell Room 2049 Natural History Building
Sponsor
HRI and Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science
Contact
Brian Jefferson
E-Mail
bjjeffer@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Campus Humanities Calendar

In this month's Critical Cybernetics Research Cluster, Lou Turner (DURP) unearths the dark material history of the cybernetics revolution in the new scramble for Africa to extract the “strategic minerals” for the green economic and cyber revolutions; the demands the cybernetics revolution ascribes to the Black mind; and the late-20th century event horizon of the cyber revolution in the means of capitalist production.

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