ABSTRACT
In this chapter I present the conclusions of a work currently in press whose title in English would appear as The Unconscious, Servomechanisms and Capitalist Discourse. The book is edited by Siglo Veintiuno Editores in Mexico, and contains a review of the history of systems of domination as they relate to technique. The starting point of the analysis is the series of instruments and procedures that have been employed throughout the history of mankind since the discovery of fire, the earliest shrouded in myth, up to the most intricate equipment of contemporary scientific research. This defines a first level of analysis: that of ‘servomechanisms’, those ‘extensions of man’ that are present in all cultures and epochs.
