The academic journal Marxism & Sciences is circulating a call for papers about Marxism and Systems Science – The Technosphere: Systems, Things, and Infrastructures From Tektology, Cybernetics and Computational Planning to the Complexity Paradigm and Platform Capitalism. The call for papers mentions “Cybernetics in socialist planning in view of computation (e.g. in Chile, DDR, USSR, China, etc.)” and “Cybernetics in socialist planning and computation”.
The 300-word proposals should be sent to marxismandsciences@gmail.com by March 1st, and full articles will be due June 1st.
Here’s an excerpt of the call for papers:
In this special issue, we want to investigate the relation of Marxism and systems science, in history, theory and practice. We construe systems science broadly, with a particular emphasis on those conceptions which developed in the Marxist tradition with a dialectical approach. Additionally, we understand there to be a longstanding relationship between systems theory, political economy, organisation, computational means, theories of economic planning, and global social history, represented by traditions such as Immanuel Wallerstein’s world systems theory.
To read the full call for papers: https://marxismandsciences.org/call-for-papers/#Issue8