Cybernetic Capitalism : A Critical Theory of the Incommunicable / Jan Overwijk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Overwijk, Jan, author.

Series:

Meaning systems.

Meaning Systems Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism--Technological innovations--Philosophy.

Capitalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2025]

Summary:

Cybernetic Capitalism develops a critical systems theory in order to conceptualize the cybernetic rationalization of contemporary capitalism. Today, the book argues, capital no longer aims at total communicability, but seeks to put the incommunicable to work.

Contents:

Cover

Series Editors

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction: Abstract Ecologies

1. Critical Systems Theory: Ecological Confrontation

2. Spiraling into Control: Paradoxes of Thermodynamic Rationalization

3. The Vitalist Alternative: Sympoietic Multitudes

4. Cybernetic Rationalization: Valorizing the Incommunicable

Epilogue: Cybernetic Irrationalization

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Series List.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781531508951

1531508952