<nettime> Anti-Disciplinary Feedback and the Will to Effect

[Josephine Berry Slater <josie@metamute.org>]

This article by Lars Bang Larsen in Mute's latest issue (Vol 3 #1) 
should be of interest to many nettimers ... it investigates the delicate 
balance between (negative) feedback as a means of creating static 
systems of control and (positive) feedback as autopoietic and 
anti-disciplinary means... both of which intersect and play off each 
other in the political and cultural forms of the cold war period....

http://linkme2.net/pn


Anti-Disciplinary Feedback and the Will to Effect

By Lars Bang Larsen

The recursive forms of feedback made strange bedfellows out of cold war 
cybernetics and tripped-out psychedelia. In a reworking of a talk given 
at the Showroom gallery's Signal:Noise event, Lars Bang Larsen reads 
counter-cultural ‘good vibrations' literally and politically

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See also:


Mute Vol 3 #1 - Double Negative Feedback

'Double Negative Feedback' expresses the hope that the chaos unleashed 
by the cybernetic loops of financialisation, post-Fordist production and 
networked life might not only be entropic and exploitative. The noise 
generated by 'positive feedback' also takes the form of the explosions 
we are seeing in the Arab world, the anti-disciplinary uses of 
cybernetic control systems, the 'shared precarity' of compositional 
improvising, and the ripples of a political organising that no longer 
assumes a common identity but instead acknowledges our common vulnerability.

http://www.metamute.org/en/magazine/mute-vol-3-1-double-negative-feedback


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