The Hauntological Interface | A Scrapbook

11th December 2009

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Building on Wiener’s own usage of the term Manichean to designate
the continuing struggle against an active oppositional intelligence, I will
call this triad of wartime enterprises-operations research, cybernetics,
and game theory-the Manichean science.
— Peter Galison The Ontology of the Enemy: Norbert Wiener and the Cybernetic Vision in Critical Inquiry, Vol. 21, No. 1. (Autumn, 1994), pp. 228-266. Pg.232

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