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Automatic Leviathan: Cybernetics and Politics in Carl Schmitt’s Postwar Writings (2020)

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This article questions the current vogue of Carl Schmitt among political theorists who read him as an antidote to the depoliticizing force of economics and technology in the age of neoliberalism and its algorithmic rationalities. It takes Schmitt’s sparse reflections about cybernetics and game theory as paradigmatic of the theoretical and political problems raised by any theory positing the autonomy of the political. It suggests that this ultimately misunderstands the role of cybernetic representations of political decision-making in shoring up in the 1960s and 1970s the autonomy of the political that Schmitt so vehemently defended.

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Article Stefanos Geroulanos; Leif Weatherby (2020) Cybernetics and the Human Sciences. History of the Human Sciences (pp. 3-11). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Erickson, Paul A.
Aumann, Philipp
Krell, Jacob
Rispoli, Giulia
Serhii Zhabin
West, Diana Kurkovsky
Concepts
Cybernetics
Science and politics
Game theory
Social sciences
Cold War
Economics
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
West Germany
Russia
Germany
France
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