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Short Circuits: Finance, Feedback and Culture

Benedict Seymour Thanks to the pervasive logic of cybernetics and the planetary roll-out of digital networks, feedback has come to determine the behaviour of post-war capitalism and culture. Expanding on a talk given at The Showroom gallery's Signal:Noise conference, Benedict Seymour considers the uncomfortable parallels between the avant-garde and post-Fordist harnessing of 'free inputs' within networks of production. This article originally appears in Mute, Vol.3 #1, 'Double Negative Feedback', Spring/Summer 2011, pp.132-143. Read more

School of Visual Arts
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Emily Carr
San Fransisco Art Institute
Yale