The history of cognitive science as told through its entanglements with the military industrial complex.

Cognitive Psychology as counterrevolution

When you think of a college campus in the 1960’s, you probably imagine something between Woodstock and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, occasionally interrupted by lectures and seminars. But it’s important to remember that students’ revolutionary energy was directed not only at the state — solidarity

Introducing Military Industrial Cognition

Everyone knows the story of Oppenheimer ruefully quoting the Bhagavad Gita after a successful test of the atomic bomb, and his subsequent opposition to nuclear proliferation. Cognitive science has a parallel story, although it is rarely told. During Word War II, Norbert Weiner developed the basic principles of cybernetics while