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Tag Archives: swarm
The Uses and Abuses of Global Civil Society
Yesterday dmf linked an article here titled “Internet privacy, funded by spooks”, which advances the argument that through a series of intermediary organizations, federal money has been subsidizing the creation of whistleblower technologies and privacy tools like Tor and Open … Continue reading
The Revolution in Military Affairs: A Partial Timeline (+links)
“A Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) is a major change in the nature of warfare brought about by the innovative application of new technologies which, combined with dramatic changes in military doctrine and operational and organisational concepts, fundamentally alters the … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Wohlstetter, Andrew Marshall, Bush, California Ideology, CIA, communication, complexity, Cowles Commission, drones, Ford Foundation, Futurism, game theory, Global Business Network, globalization, information technology, intelligence community, Iraq, JSOC, Kevin Kelly, military-industrial-complex, neoconservatism, neoliberalism, netwar, networks, NSA, Obama, Paul Wolfowitz, post-Fordism, postmodernism, Project for the New American Century, RAND corporation, revolution in military affairs, Richard Perle, Rumsfeld Doctrine, Santa Fe Institute, scenario forecasting, Social Democrats USA, surveillance, swarm, War on Terror, warfare
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Goodbye to Complexity?
Scrolling through the internet’s back pages, I came across this old Nettime post from 2009 by Florian Cramer urging us to move past the fixation that the art world and activism have with second-order cybernetics, complexity, and the powers held … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, chaos theory, complexity theory, Cowles Commission, cybernetics, game theory, Global Business Network, Kevin Kelly, military-industrial-complex, networks, new media, RAND corporation, Santa Fe Institute, self-organization, Stewart Brand, swarm, Wired magazine
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Swarm Intermezzo: Meditations on the Ether
1. When we perceive the movement of the swarm, what is being witnessed is a certain diagram of action derived from the organizational properties of the distributed network. At this level, we take the shifts and … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, Bataille, bomb, complexity theory, computers, contagion, control, cybernetics, Empire, ether, global microstructures, Hardt, information technology, internet, irrationality, modulation, money, Negri, neoliberalism, networks, NSA, piracy, Protocol, RAND, rationalization, surveillance, swarm
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The Swarmachine: A Historical Puzzle (Part 1)
The Colors of Revolution As the Cold War came to an end, undoing the critical strategic worldwide gridlock fueled by the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, globalization took off, accelerating the flows of capital, technology, and … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, Bateson, civil society, color revolution, communication, complexity theory, control, counterculture, cybernetics, Deleuze, democracy, democracy promotion, emergence, Freedom House, geopolitics, globalization, Guattari, hacking, Hardt, information technology, internet, LaRouche, military-industrial-complex, National Endowment for Democracy, Negri, neoconservatism, neoliberalism, networks, NGOs, psychoanalysis, psychology, R.D. Laing, RAND corporation, revolution, Rockefeller Foundation, Students for a Democratic Society, swarm, Tavistock
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“The sage speaks of what he sees”: War Games and the New Spirit of Capitalism
Technological Ideologues “At the end of the twentieth century, the long predicted convergence of the media, computing and telecommunications into hypermedia is finally happening,” wrote Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron in 1995. “Once again, capitalism’s relentless drive to diversify and … Continue reading
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Tagged California Ideology, Cold War, complexity theory, computers, control, cybernetics, Deleuze, game theory, Global Business Network, globalization, Guattari, internet, Jay Wright Forrester, military-industrial-complex, neoliberalism, networks, Norbert Wiener, RAND corporation, SAGE, Stewart Brand, swarm, System Dynamics, Wired magazine
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Life in the Shadow of Protocol
I’ve been reading Alexander Galloway’s excellent Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization, which explores what he terms the “protocological” apparatuses of control, or the invisible mechanisms of power that hide behind the horizontally organized distributed networks that define the workings … Continue reading
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Tagged biopolitics, control, cybernetics, Deleuze, discipline, Foucault, Guattari, Hardt, internet, Israel/Palestine, Negri, networks, post-Fordism, Protocol, rhizome, swarm, warfare
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Deterritorial Investigations 