„Cybernetics and Snake Coils” - Daniel Nemenyi

• 18:15 Uhr, C40.530
• Sprache: Englisch

"A snake's coils are even more intricate than a mole's burrow." This talk will offer a new reading of the concluding sentence from Gilles Deleuze's 'Postscript on Societies of Control' (1990), a short text which established for many the basis for theorising power in what today might be called the 'digital age'. It will touch on Michael Hardt and Toni Negri's reading of Deleuze's notoriously cryptic remark, before suggesting a structuralist account of the relation between snakes and the ancient Greek kybernetes, the helmsman after which cybernetics was named by Norbert Wiener. Far from being a throwaway line, as has been claimed, this paper hopes to demonstrate Deleuze's sensitivity to the classical snakiness of cybernetics, especially according to Wiener's account of it, and of modes of governing and resistance that that continue to emerge today.

Die Teilnehmenden werden gebeten, Gilles Deleuze's 'Postscript on Control Societies' (1990) zu lesen sowie das entsprechende Interview aus Deleuze's Unterhaltung mit Toni Negri, 'Control and Becoming' (1990) [Download hier].

Daniel Nemenyi ist Gastwissenschaftler in der Forschungsinitiative ‘Disruptive Bedingung’.

Paul Wallenhorst