Cybernetic Revolutionaries
A scholarly history of Project Cybersyn, based on archives and interviews, examining technology and politics in Allende’s Chile.
Book · 2014Sources & confidence: Qualified confidence
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Publisher bibliography, format dates and synopsis.
- MIT Press: Cybernetic Revolutionaries
Author/title, archival and interview basis, 2011 original publication and 2014 paperback ISBN 9780262525961.
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- Publisher account checked, not the complete monograph. Claims about design intent versus centralisation require chapter-level reading.
Confidence applies to the scope above, not every claim made by the underlying source. How confidence works
Medina’s history examines Project Cybersyn and the interaction between its political and technological ambitions. The publisher describes archival research and interviews with participants.
The collection uses the book to explore tensions between decentralised participation and central coordination. This is a reading direction rather than a claim that the publisher synopsis establishes a single central argument about the operations room’s instrumentation.
Source for Project Cybersyn.
In the essays
- Neo-Technocracy: Same Dream, Bigger Budget
Read the essay
Interactives
- The Cybersyn operations room
Used in this essay
People
- Eden Medina
Author
Ideas
- High modernism
Subject
- Legibility
Subject
- Viable System Model
Subject
Cases
- Project Cybersyn
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Organisations
- MIT Press
Publisher
Record history
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