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Islands of Stability: Engaging Emergence from Cellular Automata to the Occupy Movement

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dc.creatorPickering, Andrew
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-21T08:29:52Z
dc.date.available2022-06-21T08:29:52Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractInstead of considering »being with« in terms of non-problematic, machine-like places, where reliable entities assemble in stable relationships, STS conjures up a world where the achievement of chancy stabilisations and synchronisations is local.We have to analyse how and where a certain regularity and predictability in the intersection of scientists and their instruments, say, or of human individuals and groups, is produced.The paper reviews models of emergence drawn from the history of cybernetics—the canonical »black box,« homeostats, and cellular automata—to enrich our imagination of the stabilisation process, and discusses the concept of »variety« as a way of clarifying its difficulty, with the antiuniversities of the 1960s and the Occupy movement as examples. Failures of »being with« are expectable. In conclusion, the paper reviews approaches to collective decision-making that reduce variety without imposing a neoliberal hierarchy.en
dc.identifier.doi10.28937/1000106410
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18588
dc.identifier.urihttps://meiner.de/artikel/1000106410
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/19722
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherFelix Meiner
dc.publisher.placeHamburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:1869-1366
dc.relation.ispartofseriesZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
dc.subjectMachinede
dc.subjectOrtde
dc.subjectscience and technology studiesde
dc.subjectKybernetikde
dc.subjectmachine-like placesen
dc.subjectscience and technology studiesen
dc.subjectcyberneticsen
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.titleIslands of Stability: Engaging Emergence from Cellular Automata to the Occupy Movementen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2022-06-21T10:43:08
local.source.epage134
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleProducing Places
local.source.spage121
local.source.volume5

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