Cybernetic Capitalism

Jan Overwijk is NWO Rubicon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and Assistant Professor at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht, The Netherlands.Jan Overwijk is NWO Rubicon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and Assistant Professor at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Cybernetic Capitalism works to develop a critical systems theory on the basis of an encounter between the Frankfurt School notion of instrumental reason and the fundamental innovation of Luhmannian systems theory, namely operational closure. The book shows how we might fix what the author rightly perceives as the flaws in each. With an impressive clarity of conceptual thinking the book makes surprising and exciting connections between a vast number of disparate discourses.---Mark B. N. Hansen, Duke University