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SUMMARY:Cybernetic Capitalism: A Book Presentation
DESCRIPTION:In Cybernetic Capitalism (Fordham University Press)\, social ph
 ilosopher Jan Overwijk develops a “critical systems theory” in order t
 o trace the paradoxes of the “cybernetic rationalization” of capitalis
 m. Contemporary capitalism is organized on principles of information and c
 ommunication\, the domain of what used to be called “cybernetics”. Man
 agers have reimagined the workplace itself as a giant cybernetic machine\,
  while neoliberal ideologues likened markets to information processors. Wh
 at is the strange logic that governs these domains? How does cybernetic 
 “rationalization” simultaneously lead to society’s “irrationalizat
 ion”\, now Silicon Valley oligarchs collude with “conspiritualist swar
 ms”?\nAt this book presentation\, Jan Overwijk enters into dialogue with
  Anna-Verena Nosthoff. Overwijk is NWO Rubicon postdoctoral fellow at Fran
 kfurt’s Institut für Sozialforschung and assistant professor at the Uni
 versity for Humanistic Studies\, Utrecht. Nosthoff is junior professor Eth
 ics of Digitization at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg and c
 o-director of the Critical Data Lab at Humboldt Universität Berlin and Un
 iversität Oldenburg. Her book Kybernetik und Kritik: Eine Theorie digital
 er Regierungskunst is forthcoming with Suhrkamp in 2026. The event will be
  moderated by Ole Bogner\, research associate in Sociological Theory and H
 istory of Theory at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt.\nWith Jan Overwijk\
 , Anna-Verena Nosthoff\, and Ole Bogner (moderation)\nAbout the book
URL:https://www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/eventleser/cybernetic-capitalism-a-boo
 k-presentation.html
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LOCATION:Senckenberganlage 26\, 60325 Frankfurt am Main
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