Research Seminars @ Illinois

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Tailored for undergraduate researchers, this calendar is a curated list of research seminars at the University of Illinois. Explore the diverse world of research and expand your knowledge through engaging sessions designed to inspire and enlighten.

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Cybernetics Unwired: A Critique of Cyber Capitalism

Event Type: Lecture
Sponsor: HRI and Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science
Location: Russell Room 2049 Natural History Building
Date: Jan 24, 2024 3:00 - 4:15 pm
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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