Revisiting Norbert Wiener's anti-aircraft predictor-a founding episode in the history of cybernetics-I show how this gap was bridged by a logic of (en)closures that reduced the living human form and the world to narrow operational ends banishing the openness and indeterminacy of both life and nature into undesirable contingency. Thinking through Harun Farocki's work on operational images, I however locate a zone of friction or incommensurability between the network and the world. Today, it seems as if the network and the world are naturally interoperable.
That moment and the challenges that followed made up for a few hours of ho-hum puzzle solving.In a world-order where planetary computational networks have restructured nearly all spheres of existence, what is not already networked lies in wait merely as standing-reserve. I won’t spoil it, but it the way it subverts expectations and marries the story and mechanics that had at that point become all too familiar is genuinely original and incredibly interesting. Instead of trigger those “aha!” moments that make a truly great puzzle game, it felt more like I was just going through the motions.But while the first two-thirds of The Turing Test definitely fell into the been-there-done-that realm, there’s a super smart twist in the later on that flips the whole thing on its head. This led to some pacing problems that had me sighing my way through a handful of puzzles. I far too often found myself figuring out a solution quickly, only to have to go through the chore-like series of moves to actually navigate myself through it. As they stand, challenges throughout most of The Turing Test are generally simplistic to mentally solve, but oftentimes devolve into mostly physically demanding tasks.
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