The Cybernetic Matrix of 'French Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2352091 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Céline Lafontaine (Department of Sociology of the Université de Montréal, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 27-46 |
| Publication date | 2007-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0263276407084637 |
| OpenAlex | W2071894754 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 9 |
This article aims to draw a portrait of the influence of cybernetics on soft science. To this end, structuralism, post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy will be successively analyzed in a perspective based on importing concepts stemming from the cybernetic paradigm (information, feedback, entropy, complexity, etc.). By focusing more specifically on the American postwar context, we intend to remind the audience that many soft science specialists were involved in the elaboration of this 'new science'. We will then retrace the influence of the cybernetic paradigm on structuralism. Starting with the historic meeting between Roman Jakobson and Claude Lévi-Strauss, we will illustrate that structural phonology is directly inspired by discoveries stemming from the informational model. In the same perspective, the conceptual borrowings of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan from cybernetics will be identified and analyzed. Then, we will address the matter of the relationship between postmodern theories and the cybernetic paradigm. The philosophical movement towards deconstruction, as well as Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy, will be analyzed based on how they relate to this paradigm. We will also insist on the fact that the philosophy of Jean- François Lyotard's La Condition postmoderne is fully in line with the epistemological revolution launched by cybernetics
Context (archaeology · Cybernetics · Deconstruction (building · Epistemology · Postmodernism · Sociology · Structuralism (philosophy of science · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · Media, Communication, and Education · Origins and Evolution of Life · Philosophy
Etica do discurso e eugenia liberal
Etica do discurso e eugenia liberal
Technologisches Regieren
Structural models in anthropology
Tecnologia (colonial)
(Colonial) Technology
Machine, organism and language
Operational Media
You are adapting more to me than I am adapting to you’ (but what does more mean?)
What is the ‘cybernetic’ in the ‘history of cybernetics’? A French case, 1968 to the present
Tactical cybernetics
Cultural citizenship in the digital future(s)
Bridging gaps
Claude Lévi‐Strauss (1908–2009)
Lacan and the Americans
Automatic for the People? Cybernetics and Left‐Accelerationism
Textocracy, or, the cybernetic logic of French theory
A Silvan Tomkins Handbook
Computational challenges to test and revitalize Claude Lévi-Strauss transformational methodology
Two Regimes of Logocentrism
Network concepts in social theory
Unfit for the future? The depoliticization of human perfectibility, from the Enlightenment to transhumanism
Complexity
Rereading Jacques Attali'sBruits
Loops, ladders and links
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,39 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |