Reckoning with Tlatelolco: Arturo Rosenblueth and a Cybernetic Rhetoric

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J. Izaguirre
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Abstract:This essay examines the cybernetic rhetoric of Dr. Arturo Rosenblueth, a cybernetician and prominent Mexican intellectual. Published in a journal reaffirming Mexico’s political image in the aftermath of the Tlatelolco Massacre in 1968, his essay offered a counter to one of the government’s rationales for the violence enacted against the movimiento estudiantil at Tlatelolco—the influence of el extranjero. Rosenblueth’s essay evinced a mediating path between complete disavowal of Mexico’s statist tendencies and support for the Mexican state in post-Tlatelolco Mexico. Yet, in invoking cybernetics as a rhetoric for public intervention in this moment of crisis, I argue that Rosenblueth’s use of cybernetics both empowered his proposals calling for an adjustment to perceptions of el extranjero and supported the survival of a strong Mexican state enacting violence against it. I conclude from my reading of Rosenblueth’s essay that the political possibilities of cybernetic rhetoric lie not only on the cybernetician’s ideological commitments or political context(s) but by a plasticity constitutive of cybernetics.
与特拉特洛尔科的清算:阿图罗·罗森布鲁思与控制论修辞
摘要:本文考察了控制论者、墨西哥著名知识分子阿图罗·罗森布鲁思博士的控制论修辞。他的文章发表在一本杂志上,重申了墨西哥在1968年特拉特洛尔科大屠杀后的政治形象,反驳了政府对特拉特洛尔克研究所实施暴力的理由之一——外部杰罗的影响。Rosenblueth的文章展示了在完全否认墨西哥的中央集权主义倾向和支持后特拉特洛尔科时代的墨西哥国家之间的一条调解之路。然而,在引用控制论作为在这一危机时刻进行公共干预的修辞时,我认为Rosenblueth对控制论的使用既支持了他呼吁调整对el extranjero的看法的提议,也支持了一个强大的墨西哥国家对其实施暴力的生存。我从阅读Rosenblueth的文章中得出结论,控制论修辞的政治可能性不仅取决于控制论者的意识形态承诺或政治背景,而且取决于控制主义的可塑性构成。
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