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SUMMARY:Cybernetics Revolution in Contemporary China - Canhui Liu. Departm
 ent of Sociology
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CONTACT:Manu Sasidharan
DESCRIPTION:This talk will be delivered remotely\, but people are welcome 
 to still join from the Richard King Room and have lunch during the talk. W
 e will put the talk on the projector screen.\n\nCybernetics\, a theory of 
 information communication in machine systems that originated in engineerin
 g and mathematics in the U.S.\, is regarded as the core knowledge foundati
 on to develop a series of emerging technology such as AI and automation ma
 chines nowadays. The western context sees cybernetics as primarily useful 
 in developing weaponry and automated machines intended for security and ma
 nufacturing purposes. Yet\, some technological practices in socialist coun
 tries have created an alternative representation of the bridge between cyb
 ernetics and social transformations. \nThe most successful case must be Ch
 ina. Cybernetics is regarded as a powerful tool to provide the scientific 
 evidence for a series of social and economic policymaking\, which have suc
 cessfully changed the social structure in contemporary China. The broad ap
 plication of cyber technology in China’s socio-economic sphere could be 
 regarded as moving cybernetics beyond the technological arenas and into a 
 kind of “cultural fever” or new ideology. Why and how does China make 
 a different cybernetics narrative? \nThis research proposal and some preli
 minary results aim to explore the rise of an cybernetic narrative in China
  after the Cultural Revolution\, from which to understand the modernizatio
 n of China as an unexplored perspective and push the existing research bey
 ond the colonial context. \n
LOCATION:Darwin College\, Richard King Room
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