/lit/ - Literature

>>12631657
the other example of this kind of deep-scale cybernetics was the Cold War. again, the Soviets and the West knew each other and itself entirely too well, which is what led to terrifying scenarios like Fail Safe (oops, a missile accidentally went off here, so in order to repair the balance, we have to make sure one goes off with you guys as well...so that the paranoia that structures our world can be continued...)

i strongly recommend reading Girard's book on Clauswitz (Battling to the End) also, even though it isn't an explicitly /acc book, but because imho there is something much more significant going on about the nature of technology that involves cybernetics, mimetics, knowledge structures, and much much else...even Land himself only becomes interesting after the ending of the Cold War...or about the disastrous logic of the duel we find ourselves in when we are forced to identify ourselves as states for the sake of responding to calls from the other guy, who also apprehends himself as a state, and so on...

these ideas, of game-theory, and reciprocity, exchanges and all the rest, there is a huge story here to be written about postmodernity and the end of the Soviet Union, but also about how we massively technologized and cyberneticized ourselves during and through the twentieth century, and on into today, the great age of telecommunications and capital...

...ugh. so much stuff to think about. but this great unfolding of collective (un)consciousness, of recognition and misrecognition, of call and response, this all makes up who and what we are today...

sorry, sometimes i feel it's better just to get my random schizo-ramble thoughts out even in a half-baked form rather than dwell on them.