I just finished my belated reading of Yuk #Hui’s *Recursivity and Contingency* (2019). I wished I had read it before or during my PhD work, but I simply didn’t get around to it. It’s really a great and illuminating work / 1
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I myself have argued elsewhere that *cybernetic thinking* can be thought of much as #Simondon conceived of what he called *Encyclopedism*: a long period of rationalization spanning three centuries, of which Diderot and D’Alembert’s *Encyclopédie* would only be its more concrete manifestation / 2
Similarly, I claimed that #cybernetics would be the more concrete or evident manifestation of a broader and more pervasive form of rationalization (*cybernetic thinking*) that can be traced back to the 19th century and is still active today, in the 21st century. But of course I fell short… / 3
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