Operational Media: Cybernetics, Biopolitics and Postwar Education
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...The perfect modern citizen, in that sense, is docile and conservative (Foucault, 1979; Rose, 2010)....
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...First wave cybernetics, a postwar paradigm based on a simplified model of human psychology and an emphasis on the universality of information circulation, rather than the messier world of semantics, was entirely oriented toward pragmatic considerations of operationality (Hayles, 1999)....
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...While these machinic terms could still be used under the humanist banner (as Wiener did), they also blazed a trail to a posthumanist imaginary in which humans and technologies would become horizontally interconnected (Hayles, 1999)....
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...Au Carrefour thus implicitly links psychological normalization with the hope for societies aspiring to homeostasis after the war (Hayles, 1999)....
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...The perfect modern citizen, in that sense, is docile and conservative (Foucault, 1979; Rose, 2010)....
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...…the ascendency both of sociobiology and social psychology, disciplines that emphasized the environmental causes of human behaviour and were closely connected to the emergence of American communications research on propaganda (Haraway, 1991; Alleyne, 2003; Peters & Peters, 2016; Rose, 2010)....
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...The emphasis on education as technique, which played such a central role at UNESCO, also highlights the ascendency both of sociobiology and social psychology, disciplines that emphasized the environmental causes of human behaviour and were closely connected to the emergence of American communications research on propaganda (Haraway, 1991; Alleyne, 2003; Peters & Peters, 2016; Rose, 2010)....
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