Paul Virilio’s The Lost Dimension (1991)
collection of 5 essays about time, urban design, social theories post quantum theory, acceleration, etc — highly recommend
John Zerzan’s “Time and its Discontents” (2009)
short essay
Wolfi Landstreicher’s “A Critique, Not a Program: For a Non-Primitivist Anti-Civilization Critique” (2007)
short essay
John Gall’s Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail (1975)
read the whole thing, it’s crucial, short (104 pages) and doesn’t require math
Norbert Wiener’s Cybernetics: Or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948)
for math-oriented people: read introduction, chapter 1, chapter 2, and chapter 3 to get started — if you dig it, carry on
for not-math-oriented people: read the introduction and chapter 1 on Bergsonian and Newtonian time
Vespignani et al’s Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks (2008)
for math-oriented people: after getting through chapters 1-3, you can switch to this one and carry on with both texts, supplementing each other where needed
for not-math-oriented people: read chapter 2 (covers networks and complexity)
Tiqqun’s The Cybernetic Hypothesis
enough said
for those really interested in cybernetics and complex adaptive systems, here are some lectures i’ve watched/studied (took notes on):
1-2-3-4 i declare time war!
Now’s the time to finally get around to completing “The Cybernetic Hypothesis” - Thanks for this list