Metapolitics of cybernetics

Born during the Second World War, cybernetics is based on a central insight: the mechanisms of control and communication are structurally identical in animals and machines insofar as they behave as ‘systems’. A brain that adapts to new information, an organism that maintains its temperature, or a factory that corrects production deviations, all obey the same principles: feedback, homeostasis, regulation. By formalising these concepts, cybernetics has imposed a new grammar of reality in which everything becomes a system, a flow of information and a control problem. In this framework, information takes precedence over matter, constant adaptation over decision-making, and regulation over sovereignty.