11 / November 30

Interlocks, Cognitive Hierarchies, Rhizomatics

“(Heterarchy is) an emergent organizational form with distinctive network properties … and multiple organizing principles.”
— Stark

Topics

Mark Lombardi, interlocks, A Cognitive Hierarchy Model of Games, heterarchy, rhizomatics; information hierarchies and data silos; Aaron Swartz’s Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, JSTOR, and academic journals; Substack, Patreon, dark/walled servers; Slashdot, Hacker News, Stack Overflow; compartmentalization, fusion centers, and desiloing; Lulzsec to Nulzsec — digital activism left and right, CCC, Legion of Doom, cDc/Hacktivismo, Anonymous, AnonOps, LOIC; Internet Research Agency, Council for National Policy; chans and occult memetics, Pepe, Kek, /pol to Q; right metapolitics and narrative laundering; Fog Reveal v. Chaff, Pegasus v. Predator; obfuscation, false tells, making analysis inefficient, babble tapes, Operation Vula, quote stuffing, Bayesian flooding, FaceCloak; ECHELON and warrantless mass surveillance; fogging, flooding, and surfacing; Cytex, Intellexa, NSO Group, and mercenary spyware

Readings 2

The Gamification of Conspiracy: QAnon as ARG Hugh Davies from Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum

Additional Reading & Primary Documents 4

Heterarchy Carole L. Crumley A Cognitive Hierarchy Model of Games Colin F. Camerer, Teck-Hua Ho, Juin-Kuan Chong Fogging and Flooding: Countering Extremist Mis/Disinformation After Terror Attacks GNET Report Guerilla Open Access Manifesto Aaron Swartz

Lab

TBD — your project / LOIC, HOIC, chaff. Present your project