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Cybernetics as Nomad Science

Cybernetics as Nomad Science (Deleuzian Intersections: Science, Technology, Anthropology) (pdf)

Instincts confirmed, somewhat, though it veers to telling a history. My categorization would include a longer list of children fields including complexity, systems, networks. Essentially that which is utterly relevant and necessary toward broader social, scientific advancement, yet is only now finding marginally more common usage and broader awareness.

I made the association to perhaps Deleuzian nomad science after these realizations. Nuance as to whether it fits Deleuze’s definitions or not isn’t of interest, rather the broader regressive focus that will come to be an even greater issue than presently. Anecdotally, in manuscripts one often sees an academic make a minor extension into a foreign field yet to the trained eye these are seldom more than purely naive. It underscores a certain lack of integration. 

These are very high level considerations and quite difficult to address flatly as the institutional logics that would engender them often operate invisibly. Fundamentally however, a shift toward perspective over methodology alone is imperative. Quite frankly the notion of an overly large dependence on reductionism is a disease (though perhaps a human failing) which at best leads to one being complacent though an increasingly fundamental strain of ignorance and at worst clouds that which is paramount, stymieing both public awareness and institutionally sanctioned paths of research. In either event and as a result, a broader social effect can be argued that we are then worse off for the spectacle of then nitpicking over the flawed, irrelevant, and inconsequential.