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a few examples before our eyes that could help us imagine and act in the world
differently. Such examples are what the following chapters offer. They dem-
onstrate concretely and very variously the possibility of a nonmodern stance
in the world, a stance of revealing rather than enframing, that hangs together
with an ontology of unknowability and becoming. Hence the invitation to see
the following scenes from the history of cybernetics as sketches of another
future, models for another way to go on, an invitation elaborated further in
chapter 8.
This topic is not an argument that modernity must be smashed or that
science as we know it should be abandoned. But my hope is that it might
do something to weaken the spell that modernity casts over us—to question
its hegemony, to destabilize the idea that there is no alternative. Ontological
monotheism is not turning out to be a pretty sight.
