Bill Nichols (film critic)  

"The transgressive and liberating potential which Bataille found in the violation of taboos and prohibitions, and which Benjamin found in the potential of mechanically reproduced works of art persists in yet another form. The cybernetic metaphor contains the germ of an enhanced future inside a prevailing model that substitutes part for whole, simulation for real, cy borg for human.... The task is not to overthrow the prevailing cybernetic model but to transgress its predefined interdictions and limits, using the dynamite of the apperceptive powers it has itself brought into being."--"The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems" (1988) by Bill Nichols, first published in Screen 21 (1):22-46. Winter 1988