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Your essay question is- Describe the turn to cybernetics by the Counterculture in America

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Your essay question is- Describe the turn to cybernetics by the Counterculture in America. What was it about cybernetics that the 1960s counterculture found so appealing to its worldview? What was wrong in American life as they saw it that compelled young Americans in the 1970s to embrace cybernetics into a social ideology? What remedies to politics and society did they wish to bring about in the creation of a cybernetic space?

2.            Please read one of the following two articles:

Fred Turner, “Machine Politics: the rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism”

https://harpers.org/archive/2019/01/machine-politics-facebook-political-polarization/

Mark Satta, “Epistemic Tribalism, Epistemic Chaos, and Epistemic Exhaustion”

https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2018/08/28/epistemic-tribalism-epistemic-chaos-and-epistemic-exhaustion/

Connect the main argument in one of the two articles to the claim that a cybernetic utopia has turned into a nightmare, a dystopia. Choose two claims in one of the articles and elaborate: how the creation of a cybernetic space with cybernetic principles backfired.

The major text that needs to guide your essay is Fred Turner’s From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Catalogue and the Rise of Digital Utopianism.

In addition, you can consult any of the readings on the syllabus, especially Theodore Roszak, The Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and its Youthful Opposition

You may also consult: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/may/05/stewart-brand-whole-earth-catalog

Your essay should consist of roughly 1000-1500 words. Limit: 2500 words (aprx. 5-8 pages). A five-six page essay is ideal