05 / October 19

Young Slime Life, Swarm v. Slime Dynamics

“Cells that fire together, wire together.”
— Folk saying

Topics

Agent v. Swarm v. Protean Ooze; David Roden and Posthuman Life; Ian Buchanan, assemblage theory and the precession of assemblage; Harold Bloom’s “strong misreading”; parasocial slime life — Roberta Breitmore, Lil Miquela, the Brud, Tilly Norwood, Particle6; swarm dynamics and drone swarms; Polybius’s Histories, Arcadia, the Polybius square, and fire signals; Polybius by Sinneslöschen — psyop, rumint, rumortech, vaporware; TAO, Olympic Games, Nitro Zeus, and cyberkinetic/rumor warfare; DARPA SMISC and INCAS, GCHQ’s JTRIG; Frank Rosenblatt and the Perceptron; Minsky and Papert’s Perceptrons and linearly separable problems; scalars, vectors, sets, training, sorting, decision trees, leaf nodes, entropy splits; Edge Detector zine, Rudy Rucker

Readings 2

from Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems Eric Bonabeau et al. from Slime Dynamics Ben Woodard

Additional Reading & Primary Documents 3

from Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry Minsky and Papert Notes on Polybius by Sinneslöschen, Nitro Zeus Scott Benzel Agential Realism, from Meeting the Universe Halfway Karen Barad

Lab

TBD