作者：EdenMedina
出版社：TheMITPress
副标题：TechnologyandPoliticsinAllende'sChile
出版年：2011-10-28
页数：344
定价：GBP20.00
装帧：Paperback
ISBN：9780262297387
内容简介
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In Cybernetic Revolutionaries, Eden Medina tells the history of two intersecting utopian visions, one political and one technological. The first was Chile's experiment with peaceful socialist change under Salvador Allende; the second was the simultaneous attempt to build a computer system that would manage Chile's economy. Neither vision was fully realized–Allende's government ended with a violent military coup; the system, known as Project Cybersyn, was never completely implemented–but they hold lessons for today about the relationship between technology and politics. Drawing on extensive archival material and interviews, Medina examines the cybernetic system envisioned by the Chilean government–which was to feature holistic system design, decentralized management, human-computer interaction, a national telex network, near real-time control of the growing industrial sector, and modeling the behavior of dynamic systems. She also describes, and documents with photographs, the network's Star Trek-like operations room, which featured swivel chairs with armrest control panels, a wall of screens displaying data, and flashing red lights to indicate economic emergencies. Studying project Cybersyn today helps us understand not only the technological ambitions of a government in the midst of political change but also the limitations of the Chilean revolution. This history further shows how human attempts to combine the political and the technological with the goal of creating a more just society can open new technological, intellectual, and political possibilities. Technologies, Medina writes, are historical texts; when we read them we are reading history.
作者简介
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Eden Medina is Assistant Professor in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Bloomington. She received the IEEE Life Member's Prize in Electrical History in 2007 for her work on Chile's experiments with cybernetics and socialism.
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“当一个控制论者，要比当一个持枪匪徒更多的勇气吗?”
在阿连德政府的最后几年里，激进的技术和政治理念是如何交织在一起试图在冷战期间非此即彼的路线之外寻找更多可能性但却遭遇失败。
尽管冷战叙述把智利的控制论社会主义实践描述成极权国家的项目，但作者突破这种意识形态桎梏，认真梳理社会主义的政治与技术实践。也请冷战学者请多给与东方某国社会主义时期同样的“同情之理解，理解之同情“。
读到脑壳疼。一个英国人设计致力于智利社会主义还试图强调工人参与的科技系统，故事本身就很吸引人，也很直观地感受到是如何把政治价值观嵌入科技设计的。印象比较深刻的是那段魔幻的未来主义式设计中控室，女性居然作为技术拥有者被排除在外。最后，媒体真的不能瞎报道orz，虽然走向某种程度上是必然的，但是很好奇如果cybersyn真的能改造出民主的社会主义系统是什么样的
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