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Type: Biographical profile / academic summary (house oversight committee document)
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This document is a biographical summary or academic profile of Caroline A. Jones, an art historian at MIT. It details her academic focus on the intersection of art, technology, and cybernetics, specifically describing her course 'Automata, Automatism, Systems, Cybernetics.' The text explores her philosophical views on 'left' versus 'right' cybernetics and references historical figures like Wiener, Shannon, and Turing. The document bears a House Oversight Committee bates stamp.

People (5)

Name Role Context
Caroline A. Jones Art Historian / MIT Faculty
Subject of the profile, discussing her academic interests in art, technology, and cybernetics.
Wiener Scientist/Author
Referenced as primary reading material (Norbert Wiener).
Shannon Scientist/Author
Referenced as primary reading material (Claude Shannon).
Turing Scientist/Author
Referenced as primary reading material (Alan Turing).
Dave Kaiser Author/Academic
Referenced by Jones regarding the term 'hippie physicists'.

Organizations (3)

Name Type Context
MIT
Institution where Caroline A. Jones teaches her course.
Esalen
Mentioned in the context of 'Left Coast' and 'left cybernetics'.
House Oversight Committee
Source of the document (implied by footer stamp).

Timeline (1 events)

Ongoing (at time of writing)
MIT Course: 'Automata, Automatism, Systems, Cybernetics'
MIT

Locations (2)

Location Context
Mentioned as part of the 'Left Coast' definition.
Colloquial term used to describe the political grouping of 'left cybernetics'.

Relationships (2)

Caroline A. Jones Academic Reference Dave Kaiser
Jones cites Kaiser's term 'hippie physicists'.
Caroline A. Jones Employment/Faculty MIT
Text mentions 'Her MIT course'.

Key Quotes (4)

"As an art historian, a lot of my questions are about what kind of art we can make, what kind of thought we can make, what kind of ideas we can make that could stretch the human beyond our stubborn, selfish, ‘only concerned with our small group’ parameters."
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"Her goal: to come up with a new central paradigm of evolution that’s culture-based—'communalism and interspecies symbiosis rather than survival of the fittest.'"
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"What do I mean by left cybernetics? In one sense, it’s a pun or a joke: the cybernetics that was ‘left’ behind."
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"It’s not an adequate term, but it’s a way of recognizing that there was a group beholden to the military-industrial complex, sometimes very unhappily, who gave us the tools to critique it."
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