132 07 Nietzsche’s Amor Fati: Wishing and Willing in a Cybernetic Circuit Nicola Masciandaro NWW.IV, April 13, 2013 here is no sanity [sanitas] in anyone who is displeased with your creation. — Augustine, Confessions 1 We make doors and windows for a room; but it is these empty spaces that make the room livable. — Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching 2 his paper is commentary on he Gay Science §276 in light of the cybernetic. 3 he natural connection between the cybernetic and Nietzsche’s amor fati is evident in their intersection within the principle of interface as the site of steering or helmsmanship (kubernēsis). Nietzsche names this love under the double sign of Januarius — at once the two-faced god of beginnings/doorways/ 1 Augustine, Confessions, 2nd ed., trans. F.J. Sheed (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006), 7.14.20. Translation modiied. 2 Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching, trans. John C.H. Wu (New York: St. John’s Univer- sity Press, 1961), 11. 3 Friedrich Nietzsche, he Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs, ed. Bernard Williams, trans. Joseine Nauckhof (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).