14th December 2009
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Cybernetics no longer appears as a futuristic bandwagon or as a rising worldview that will leave mere mechanism in the dustbin of history, but it has much to tell us about the nature of the sciences in the mid- twentieth century and, as I will speculate, about postmodern theory in the late twentieth century.
— 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. 233
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