On the Notion of Cybernetic Frictions and its Role in Radical Media Archaeology

Wolfgang Ernst (author)

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Title	On the Notion of Cybernetic Frictions and its Role in Radical Media Archaeology
Contributor	Wolfgang Ernst (author)
License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Copyright	Wolfgang Ernst
Publisher	meson press
Published on	2023-09-29
Short abstract	This chapter asks to what extent the technical realizations of cybernetic projects still relate to their conceptual diagrams. This is assessed by discussing three types of endeavors: a) those from the early years of cybernetics showing asynchronous frictions between the unfolding of cybernetic thinking and the pace of technological deployment; b) the mid-century attempts to implement cybernetic models in culture and society, where infrastructure itself appears as the source of resistance; and c) the still recurrent efforts to develop diagrammatic and techno-material methods to study the feedback loops between the environment, natural resources, and their industrial appropriation. Hence, it will be argued that the techno-logical frictions emerging from mate(real)izing cybernetic systems should not be seen simply as collateral damage, nor as noisy disturbances, but rather as an essential component of the technológos of cybernetics.
Long abstract	This chapter asks to what extent the technical realizations of cybernetic projects still relate to their conceptual diagrams. This is assessed by discussing three types of endeavors: a) those from the early years of cybernetics showing asynchronous frictions between the unfolding of cybernetic thinking and the pace of technological deployment; b) the mid-century attempts to implement cybernetic models in culture and society, where infrastructure itself appears as the source of resistance; and c) the still recurrent efforts to develop diagrammatic and techno-material methods to study the feedback loops between the environment, natural resources, and their industrial appropriation. Hence, it will be argued that the techno-logical frictions emerging from mate(real)izing cybernetic systems should not be seen simply as collateral damage, nor as noisy disturbances, but rather as an essential component of the technológos of cybernetics.
Page range	pp. 119–130
Language	English (Original)

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Wolfgang Ernst

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Chair of Media Theories at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Wolfgang Ernst is chair of Media Theories at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research covers media archaeology as method, theory of technical storage, technologies of cultural transmission, micro-temporal media aesthetics, critique of history as master discourse of cultural and technological time, and sound analysis from a media-epistemological perspective.