Eigentlich hätte Google Glass eines der ganz wichtigen Themen des Cyborg e.V. werden können: Ein Gerät, das du wie eine Brille ständig trägst, deine Sinne erweitert, dessen konsequente Nutzung radikale Auswirkung auf Personen und Gesellschaften hat und das starke Abwehrreaktionen…
„Traceroute“ wurde für das Print Screen Festival 2016 ausgewählt. Das Festival läuft im Juni 2016 in Holon, Israel.
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by Vera Bühlmann author’s manuscript. In his Ten Books on Architecture, the Roman architect Vitruvius gathered all the existent knowledge on architecture in one comprehensive treaty including the building of temples, of course, but also the construction of clocks (gnomon, sun-dials) and the fabrication of machinery. The dedicated aim of gathering all the distributed knowledge … Continue reading →
by Vera Bühlmann author’s manuscript. The mathematical notion of the equation is first documented in the 16th century, when it seems to have been introduced as what we would today call a terminus technicus for organizing the practice of equalizing mathematical expressions. It seems to have been introduced to European Renaissance science and philosophy together with algebra: … Continue reading →
by Vera Bühlmann author’s manuscript. The main inclination this article will try to develop concerns a danger that Michel Serres has stated as follows: not to confuse invariance and identity.[1] Jacques Monod, to whom Serres refers with this statement, has pointed out the source of this likely confusion with regard to what he calls the … Continue reading →
by Vera Bühlmann author’s manuscript. In this article, I would like to discuss one of the key moments of reference in 20th century information science, which arose from thermodynamics and which in fact links the latter to the former in many important aspects. Maxwell’s famous thought experiment explores how to think of heat, if … Continue reading →
author’s manuscript, work in progress (Vera Bühlmann). “Thought interfers with the probability of events, and, in the long run, therefore, with entropy”.[1] The term “negentropy” is born from this very situation. It was introduced by Schrödinger to distinguish biological systems from physical systems, and then generalized by Léon Brillouin into the domain of information theory. … Continue reading →
Can we find the City in today’s urban landscapes? Can we accommodate the urban in the City? How can we come to terms with the theorem central to information science, that information cannot be acquired without paying a price, that the nature of information is negentropic (Leon Brillouin, Michel Serres) ? What does that imply … Continue reading →
Du wolltest schon immer bei einem queer-feministischen Zeitschriftenprojekt mitmachen? In einem basisdemokratrischen Kollektiv über Texte diskutieren und gemeinsam etwas gestalten? Du hast Lust journalistisch und_oder gestalterisch tätig sein? Du wolltest immer schon mal wissen, wie ein autonomer Zeitschriftenvertrieb funktioniert? Excellisten mit mehr Text als Zahlen bereiten dir keine […]
John F. Nebel bespricht unseren Film „Traceroute“ auf Metronaut… yeah!
Traceroute gibt Einblicke in die Welt von Nerds. Eine Frau, die Bakterienstämme von Schweißfüßen mit dem gut gereifter Käse vergleicht – und…
