A thread on computational communism, in honor of Peter Thiel:https://twitter.com/NYCDSATechWG/status/963809483158884357 …
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Ben Tarnoff Retweeted NYC-DSA Tech Action 🌹
A thread on computational communism, in honor of Peter Thiel:https://twitter.com/NYCDSATechWG/status/963809483158884357 …
Ben Tarnoff added,
In the 1960s, the Soviet mathematician Viktor Glushkov experimented with using information technology for socialist economic planning. See @bjpeters book "How Not to Network a Nation": https://mitpress.mit.edu/hownot
In the 1970s, Allende's Chile undertook similar experiments under the heading of "Project Cybersyn," with the help of an eccentric British cybernetics enthusiast named Stafford Beer. See @edenmedina's great "Cybernetic Revolutionaries":https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries …
In the 1990s, Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell published "Towards a New Socialism," which explores how to use computers—now much more powerful than they were in the 60s and 70s!—for efficient and *democratic* economic planning. http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf …
More recently, this is a thread that gets picked up by "accelerationism" and some of the technological thinking around Corbynism. See @n_srnck and @lemonbloodycola's "Inventing the Future." https://www.versobooks.com/books/2315-inventing-the-future …
And Francis Spufford's 2010 novel Red Plenty explores the theme of a computationally planned economy in detail, which was the occasion for this long, fascinating analysis by Cosma Shalizi: http://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimization-problem-solves-you/ …
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