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This document appears to be a page from a larger report or book (page 173) containing a biographical profile of art historian Caroline A. Jones. It details her academic focus on the intersection of art, technology, and cybernetics, specifically describing her course at MIT and her concepts of 'left cybernetics' versus 'right cybernetics.' The page bears a House Oversight Committee Bates stamp, suggesting it is part of a larger production of documents, likely related to intellectual circles (such as the Edge Foundation) often associated with the Epstein investigation, though Epstein himself is not mentioned on this specific page.
People (5)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Caroline A. Jones | Art Historian / Professor |
Subject of the biographical text, discusses her interest in modern art and cybernetics.
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| Wiener | Scientist / Author |
Norbert Wiener; cited as a primary reading source for Jones' course.
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| Shannon | Scientist / Author |
Claude Shannon; cited as a primary reading source for Jones' course.
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| Turing | Scientist / Author |
Alan Turing; cited as a primary reading source for Jones' course.
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| Dave Kaiser | Academic / Author |
Referenced by Jones regarding the term 'hippie physicists'.
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| MIT |
Where Caroline A. Jones teaches the course 'Automata, Automatism, Systems, Cybernetics'.
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| Esalen |
Mentioned in the context of 'Left Coast' and political groupings.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Implied by the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT'.
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Mentioned as part of the 'Left Coast'.
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Colloquial term for the US West Coast, referenced in relation to political groupings.
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Relationships (1)
Jones references Kaiser's term 'hippie physicists'.
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"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."Source
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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.”"Source
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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."Source
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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."Source
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Caroline A. Jones’ interest in modern and contemporary art is enriched by a willingness to delve into the technologies involved in its production, distribution, and reception. “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. The philosophers and philosophies I’m drawn to are those that question the Western obsession with individualism. Those are coming from so many different places, and they’re reviving so many different kinds of questions and problems that were raised in the 1960s.”
She has recently turned her attention to the history of cybernetics. Her MIT course, “Automata, Automatism, Systems, Cybernetics,” explores the history of the human/machine interface in terms of feedback, exploring the cultural rather than engineering uptake of this idea. She begins with primary readings by Wiener, Shannon, and Turing and then pivots from the scientists and engineers to the work and ideas of artists, feminists, postmodern theorists. 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.”
As a historian, Caroline draws a distinction between what she has termed “left cybernetics” and “right cybernetics”: “What do I mean by left cybernetics? In one sense, it’s a pun or a joke: the cybernetics that was ‘left’ behind. On another level, it’s a vague political grouping connoting our Left Coast: California, Esalen, the group that Dave Kaiser calls the ‘hippie physicists.’ 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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