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From Information Theory to French Theory: Jakobson, Lévi-Strauss, and the Cybernetic Apparatus
Ist Teil von
Critical inquiry, 2011-09, Vol.38 (1), p.96-126
Ort / Verlag
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2011
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University of Chicago Press Journals
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Geohegan investigates the history of media, technology, global science, and the assembly of what he term the cybernetic apparatus. With the term apparatus he offers two interrelated phenomena in mind. First, from the 1940S through the early 1960s, Claude Levi-Strauss and his collaborator, the Russian linguist Roman Jakobson, hailed the potential of recently developed media instruments and techniques to validate structural research and modernize the human sciences. In this regard, the cybernetic apparatus refers to instruments and techniques--including mathematical procedures, diagrammatic strategies, and technologies--that acted as material aids or guides to research. Second, he refers to how the politics of knowledge enabled these material instruments and techniques to morph into ostensibly immaterial ideals that furnished researchers with procedures for investigations unhindered by historical, political, or disciplinary difference.