Book ID: CBB504746255

Zootechnologies: A Media History of Swarm Research (2019)

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Vehlken, Sebastian (Author)


Amsterdam University Press


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 400
Language: English

Swarming has become a fundamental cultural technique related to dynamic processes and an effective metaphor for the collaborative efforts of society. This book examines the media history of swarm research and its significance to current socio-technological processes. It shows that the hype about collective intelligence is based on a reciprocal computerization of biology and biologization of computer science: After decades of painstaking biological observations in the ocean, experiments in aquariums, and mathematical model-making, it was swarms-inspired computer simulation which provided biological researchers with enduring knowledge about animal collectives. At the same time, a turn to biological principles of self-organization made it possible to adapt to unclearly delineated sets of problems and clarify the operation of opaque systems - from logistics to architecture, or from crowd control to robot collectives. As zootechnologies, swarms offer performative, synthetic, and approximate solutions in cases where analytical approaches are doomed to fail.

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Authors & Contributors
Schinckus, Christophe
Saulnier, Katie Michelle
Joly, Yann
Suporas, Charles
Rafaela Hillerbrand
Moa Carlsson
Concepts
Models and modeling in science
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Computers and computing
Philosophy of science
Biology
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Wales
Germany
France
New Mexico (U.S.)
Institutions
Santa Fe Institute
Science for the People (SftP)
Cambridge. University. Laboratory of Molecular Biology
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