Cybernetic rationality

Abstract

This article interrogates the relationship between temporality, memory, and reason in cybernetic models of mind to excavate a historical shift in knowledge and governmentality. Cyberneticians reformulated ideas of reason to reimagine both minds and machines as logical circuits; in doing so, early pioneers in neural nets and computing such as Warren McCulloch, Walter Pitts, and John von Neumann also created the epistemological conditions that underpin contemporary concerns with data visualization, big data, and ubiquitous computing.

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