Cybernetics and Technology in Society

Cybernetics and technology in society examines how feedback systems, computing machines, and communication networks have reshaped not only what humans do but how they think, perceive, and organize knowledge. Drawing on media theory, philosophy of mind, and the history of science, researchers trace how cultural techniques—practices like writing, archiving, or programming—become embedded in both human cognition and the machines that extend it. A central question is whether artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction are genuinely transforming the boundaries of mind and agency, or whether they reproduce older assumptions about rationality and control in new technical form. Ongoing work investigates how embodiment complicates purely computational models of cognition, and what it means for art, memory, and subjectivity to become technically reproducible at scale.

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Cultural TechniquesMedia TheoryNeuroscienceCyberneticsArtificial IntelligencePhilosophy of Mind