Bob McDaniel wrote:
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> Eva Durant wrote:
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> >.....
> >> Books by Beniger (The Control Revolution) and Kelly (Out of Control)
> >> suggest, to me, the popularization of the ideas of cybernetics
> >> (communication and control). Absorption by the general populace of such
> >> ideas, reflected in current art (drugs and music (forms of control!)), may
> >> inspire the changes in consciousness that you seek.
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What is the big to-do about this Beninger book? I had to
read it as a class assignment when it first came out, and,
for the last couple years, I've been using it as a pedastal
for a small wood sculpture. I think I had trouble keeping
awake reading it. What on earth did I miss?
Now, on the other hand, there is Jacques Ellul (_The Techonlogical
Society_, _The Techonolgical System_, _The Technological Bluff_, etc.),
there's Arnold Gehlen's _Man in the Age of Technology_, Joseph
Weizenbaum's _Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to
Calculation_, Ithiel de Sola Pool's _Technologies of
Freedom_, David Landes's _Revolution in Time_, Shoshanna Zuboff's
_In the Age of the Smart Machine_....
Did one of the masterworks of World Civilization go over my head
as my eyes scanned the "bar codes"?
\brad mccormick
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