philosophy

Everything I am about to tell you is wrong, so bear that in mind. Dialectics is quite old, going back as to at least Aristotle, though I should wager that there is a Dialectics and Semiology to be had in the philosophies of India. Dialetical Materialism is generally taken to mean the Marixist revision of Hegelian Dialetics which 'turns Hegel on his head' or something like that. What was once Idealism now is maybe Materialist. Geist is no longer the question, but the material reality involved in production and reproduction of our conditions of mutual being and the way those relations become reified in things that appear to us as common sense but are constructions of the very process one finds oneself locked into socially rather than being the immediate data of sense perception. Strange things have been written along the lines of Hegelianism is Cybernetics without the Math and Cybernetics is Hegelianism without God. In such a way, you could argue that the Corporate Management Sciences utilizes a strange materialist dialetics, if we say that systems theory and information theory can be considered within the scope of a strict materialist ontology. Rather than the lord and bondsman, we find the thermostat and its feedback loop...