Lecture 002
Weird Technology
Tower of the Winds
Stoa of Attalos
Clepsydra
Ostrakon
Kleroterion
Turing Machine
Oracle Machines
Grey Walter and his Tortoises
Ross Ashby's Homeostat
The brain is a performative organ
Stafford Beer
The Cybernetic Factory
Putting a pond through business school
Gaia is a Homeostat
The world is not like a computer.
Computers are like the world.
Slime Molds
The Travelling Salesman
Memristors
Billiard Balls
A computer made out of crabs
Reservoir (octopus?) computing
Vladimir Lukyanov's water computer, 1936
Bill Phillips' MONIAC, 1949
Mississippi River Basin Model, 1949
Chesapeake Bay Model, 1978
Superstudio
San Francisco Bay Model, 1957
Non-binary
Decentralised Unknowing
Non-binary (Queer Technologies, Zach Blas, 2008)
Decentralised (Rand Corporation / Paul Baran, 1964)
Unknowing (Roachbot, Garnet Hertz, 2004)
Unknowing (Roachbot, Garnet Hertz, 2004)
The world is not like a computer.
Computers are like the world.