# Ayn Rand **Domain:** Literature / Political Philosophy **Doc Type:** Author and Thinker Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace]], [[Cybernetics]], [[Silicon Valley]] --- ## Definition Ayn Rand (1905–1982) was a novelist and philosopher who developed Objectivism and became influential in libertarian and technology cultures. ## Corpus Context Her role in [[All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace]] concerns the migration of individualist philosophy into network and market imaginaries. The corpus distinguishes that influence from cybernetics as a technical discipline. ## Relationships [[All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace]], [[Cybernetics]], [[Silicon Valley]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]