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Cybernetic Capitalism
A Critical Theory of the Incommunicable
Taschenbuch von Jan Overwijk
Sprache: Englisch

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"Cybernetic Capitalism works to develop a critical systems theory on the basis of an encounter between the Frankfurt School notion of instrumental reason and the fundamental innovation of Luhmannian systems theory, namely operational closure. The book shows how we might fix what the author rightly perceives as the flaws in each. With an impressive clarity of conceptual thinking the book makes surprising and exciting connections between a vast number of disparate discourses."--Mark B. N. Hansen, Duke University

This book offers a conceptual interrogation of how capital navigates its cybernetic environment. Taking an immanent perspective, the book develops a unique synthesis between Niklas Luhmann's systems theory and the critical theory tradition. Overwijk shows how neoliberal capitalism's version of rationalization depends on the organization and management of society on the basis of cybernetic principles. Overwijk seeks to update earlier critiques of cybernetic capitalism that stressed the system's colonization of its environment, its making the entirety of social life communicable. Under today's cybernetic rationalization, things are radically different. Neoliberal political economy aims to incite the incalculability of the market; platform capitalists venture to capitalize on the unpredictable efforts of their users; and post-Fordist management seeks to encourage the creativity of service workers. As this book uniquely shows, capital no longer aims at total communicability, but instead seeks to provoke and exploit the incommunicability of its environment. In this sense, it offers an ecological theory of capitalism, laying conceptual the groundwork for understanding the extractivist logic of the Anthropocene. Cybernetic Capitalism shows how the cultural obsession with incommunicability that animates cybernetic rationalization has taken an irrationalist turn, resurfacing in the mysticism of conspiracy theory and radical-right politics. The book offers a novel and compelling materialist interpretation of today's paradoxical connections between neoliberal rationalism and radical-right irrationalism. Jan Overwijk is NWO Rubicon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

"Cybernetic Capitalism works to develop a critical systems theory on the basis of an encounter between the Frankfurt School notion of instrumental reason and the fundamental innovation of Luhmannian systems theory, namely operational closure. The book shows how we might fix what the author rightly perceives as the flaws in each. With an impressive clarity of conceptual thinking the book makes surprising and exciting connections between a vast number of disparate discourses."--Mark B. N. Hansen, Duke University

This book offers a conceptual interrogation of how capital navigates its cybernetic environment. Taking an immanent perspective, the book develops a unique synthesis between Niklas Luhmann's systems theory and the critical theory tradition. Overwijk shows how neoliberal capitalism's version of rationalization depends on the organization and management of society on the basis of cybernetic principles. Overwijk seeks to update earlier critiques of cybernetic capitalism that stressed the system's colonization of its environment, its making the entirety of social life communicable. Under today's cybernetic rationalization, things are radically different. Neoliberal political economy aims to incite the incalculability of the market; platform capitalists venture to capitalize on the unpredictable efforts of their users; and post-Fordist management seeks to encourage the creativity of service workers. As this book uniquely shows, capital no longer aims at total communicability, but instead seeks to provoke and exploit the incommunicability of its environment. In this sense, it offers an ecological theory of capitalism, laying conceptual the groundwork for understanding the extractivist logic of the Anthropocene. Cybernetic Capitalism shows how the cultural obsession with incommunicability that animates cybernetic rationalization has taken an irrationalist turn, resurfacing in the mysticism of conspiracy theory and radical-right politics. The book offers a novel and compelling materialist interpretation of today's paradoxical connections between neoliberal rationalism and radical-right irrationalism. Jan Overwijk is NWO Rubicon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Über den Autor
Jan Overwijk is NWO Rubicon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and Assistant Professor at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Abstract Ecologies | 1
1. Critical Systems Theory: Ecological Confrontation | 15
2. Spiraling into Control: Paradoxes of Thermodynamic Rationalization | 55
3. The Vitalist Alternative: Sympoietic Multitudes | 93
4. Cybernetic Rationalization: Valorizing the Incommunicable | 121
Epilogue: Cybernetic Irrationalization | 155
Acknowledgments | 179
Notes | 183
Bibliography | 189
Index | 211

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: 20. & 21. Jahrhundert
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781531508937
ISBN-10: 1531508936
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Overwijk, Jan
Hersteller: Fordham University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 228 x 155 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Jan Overwijk
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.01.2025
Gewicht: 0,343 kg
Artikel-ID: 128624371
Über den Autor
Jan Overwijk is NWO Rubicon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and Assistant Professor at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Abstract Ecologies | 1
1. Critical Systems Theory: Ecological Confrontation | 15
2. Spiraling into Control: Paradoxes of Thermodynamic Rationalization | 55
3. The Vitalist Alternative: Sympoietic Multitudes | 93
4. Cybernetic Rationalization: Valorizing the Incommunicable | 121
Epilogue: Cybernetic Irrationalization | 155
Acknowledgments | 179
Notes | 183
Bibliography | 189
Index | 211

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: 20. & 21. Jahrhundert
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781531508937
ISBN-10: 1531508936
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Overwijk, Jan
Hersteller: Fordham University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 228 x 155 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Jan Overwijk
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.01.2025
Gewicht: 0,343 kg
Artikel-ID: 128624371
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