Kyle Harrison
to-read
The Cybernetic Hypothesis
- Author
- Tiqqun
- Published
- 2020
- Pages
- 168
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Cybernetics read as the governing ideology of late capitalism rather than as a branch of engineering.
An early text by the French collective Tiqqun, translated by Robert Hurley for Semiotext(e)‘s Intervention series in 2020.
Where I saw it: Justin Murphy (@jmrphy) on X, January 26, 2026, ahead of a reading-group discussion: “the most compelling and underrated theoretical project since 1999.”
Connections
- Cybernetics — the field, treated here as a politics.
- Ideological Family Tree — the continental-left lineage of technology criticism.