Daniel Nemenyi

Forschungsgebiete

My research involves new readings of what philosopher Gilles Deleuze called our contemporary 'control societies', doing so by philosophically tracing the history of cybernetics, its fundamental science. I'm currently working on the figure of the ancient Greek kubernétes, the snaky helmsman after which cybernetics was named. My work is rooted in a reading of Norbert Wiener as a post-Leibnizian philosopher whose groundbreaking book Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in Animal and Machine (1948) sets out a system of thought and an agonistic ontology whose ultimate expression is the internet itself.