Text:  "Cybernetics in the Twenty-First Century", an interview with philosopher Yuk Hui

Date: Mon, June 30th at 7pm

Location: Williamsburg with Abbi & Genevieve

For centuries, Western philosophy has made sense of machines by positioning them in relation to organic life (Descartes, that most mechanistic of thinkers, argued that a machine could never truly "think"). 

Philosopher Yuk Hui argues that "We live in an age of neo-mechanism, in which technical objects are becoming organic." What changes when we think of AI and other tech in organic terms? To the question of whether tech will save us, this text counters with the question of What, exactly, is tech?

We'll explore this question with a Study that moves through Williamsburg with an eye (and ear) toward the organicity of machines and the mechanics of organic life.