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>>11547720
it ain't hard. you just gotta understand WWII, the Bomb, cybernetics, and whatever the fuck the 1960s were about as further manifestations of the spirit. The major psychological, social, cultural and economic developments of the postwar era are in fact inseparable from each other, from expressive individualism(via ESALEN institute) to psychedelic drugs, from systems theory to the personal computer, from the hudson institute's nuclear doomsday to neoliberal incentive based governance, from WWII research culture to the ''collaborative'' workstyle of the postfordian economy. Mad Black landianism can be read as the residue of exhausted 60s whole earth utopianism, long banalised into an ideological justification for sillicon valley and the davos set. ''the pattern which connects'' collapses into apocalyptic paranoia. Deleuze and Guattari owe way more to Wiener and Bateson, to the War Effort and the Macy Conferences, than it is commonly acknowledged. the pieces of the puzzle actually fit together all too well.

See also: Gotthard Günther, a german philosopher and contributor to Asimov's amazing stories who attempted a synthesis of Hegel and Heidegger with the cybernetics of his colleagues McCullough, Wiener, Von Forester and Maturana ie. actually operationalising the hegelian dialectic mathematically as many-valued formal logic.

http://www.vordenker.de/rk/rk_Cyberphilosophy_2003.pdf