cyberneticism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
From cybernetic + -ism.