cyberneticism

English

Etymology

cybernetic +‎ -ism

Noun

cyberneticism (countable and uncountable, plural cyberneticisms)

1. The use of cybernetics as a problem-solving approach.
   • 1996, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Advocacy in the Classroom: Problems and Possibilities (page 104)

     But this Marxian conceptual-political component of poststructuralism […] leaves an intellectual structure that is mostly the expression of early twentieth-century cyberneticisms: and no young intellectual in the late 1990s, in the midst of an information-processing upheaval, can really believe that such de-Marxified structuralism remains sufficiently up to date as an intellectual technology.

   • 2024, Egbert Schuurman, ‎Ruben Alvarado, Technology and Christianity: Essays on the Interface (page 113)

     Cyberneticism is, finally, a refined form of scientism, and therefore it is also more dangerous. This form of scientism is not based on linear causality, as mechanistic thought is; rather, it is based on circular causality.

   • 2024, Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa, ‎Costas Douzinas, Non-Human Rights: Critical Perspectives, page 44:

     First, it is now the most familiar expression of the basic paradigm of late twentieth-century Euro-American though: the cyberneticism that produces networks, systems and rhizomes, and which generates the sense of emergence that allows non-humans to be agentive, articulate, and sensible, and to 'matter' in ways that concern Earthly legality.