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The Reproduction of Authority: Cybernetics and Institutional Power at the Australian National University

I went to a School of Cybernetics hoping to develop ideas about how systems organise and reproduce themselves. My experience instead prompted an unexpected examination of institutional authority, intellectual exclusion and the patterns through which institutions reproduce themselves.

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Universities still teach Socrates, but only rarely entertain the genuine institutional risk that his intellectual integrity signifies.