Gnomedex 09 Cyborg Anthropology Caseorganic
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This is the slideshow of a talk I gave at Gnomedex '09 in Seattle, Wa. It discusses the strangeness of humans and our prosthetic culture. From the externalization of our brains to the machine, to human/machine interfaces, to the blurring boundaries of public and private spaces, to the quick progression of our relationship with humans and computers --- to the strange fact that we externalize our fashion with exchangeable clothing. How our prosthetic devices make us sexy or not (vehicles, cell phones) and determine the speed at which we can live/accomplish goals. From the traditional prosthetics like the fake legs which amputees wear, to the prosthetization of our own tasks with virtual assistants and the 4 hour work week, to the idea that cell phones make give us superpowers -- the ability to hear MEGA-distances by extending our ears across the ocean. And finally, omnipresence and omniscience through social networking sites.
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Gnomedex 09 Cyborg Anthropology Caseorganic
- 1. Prosthetic Culture andCyborg Anthropology @caseorganic http://oakhazelnut.com
- 3. What is Cyborg Anthropology?
- 4. Before we answer that…
- 5. Let us talk about Prosthetic culture…
- 7. Extending the capability of the legs…
- 8. But our objects are also prosthetic devices.
- 9. As they extend the capability of the ears.
- 10. Cyborg Anthropology studies how technology augments our ability to communicate and live.
- 11. “Soon, perhaps, it will be impossible to tell where humans end and machines begin”.
- 12. For instance…
- 14. 1960 Paper on Space Travel
- 15. Using it to describe an organism “to which exogenous components had been added for the purpose of adapting it to new environments”.
- 16. Like Space.
- 19. Which is very similar to…
- 21. We are all Cyborgs.
- 23. Also a Cyborg.
- 25. A possible future... Civilization and its Discontents
- 28. But has anything really changed?
- 34. Sci-Fi has a nice way of creating the future…
- 49. WE’RE ALL SHEDDING MATERIALS
- 53. KIND OF LIKE TREES
- 55. EXCEPT LEAVES HELP CREATE NEW GROWTH
- 56. And we don’t…
- 57. WE SHARE OUR PROSTHETIC IMPULSE WITH ANOTHER CREATURE
- 58. WE SHARE OUR PROSTHETIC IMPULSE WITH ANOTHER CREATURE
- 59. One of the earliest forms of life to develop an exoskeleton.
- 60. One of the earliest forms of life to develop an exoskeleton.
- 65. Trilobytes shed their eyes.
- 66. So do we. So do we.
- 75. TELEOPERATORS
- 76. Teleoperators
- 78. Telenoia
- 80. All The World’s A Video Game
- 82. We’re all basically database animals.
- 83. It happens first in digital…
- 84. …and then it becomes reality
- 85. Or, it happens as a game…
- 86. TRAINING WHEELS
- 89. Maintenance
- 91. Either way, we’ve now become…
- 92. FAMOUS MACHINES (term from @anselm)
- 93. Here, talk about the escape velocity of data when there is too much of it on a hard drive (many photos, ect). Webvisions ’09 @caseorganic ESCAPE VELOCITY OF DATA
- 96. The automatic production of space.
- 97. Unified System Box(USB)10 Megs of Data
- 98. A HISTORY OF THE FUTURE
- 99. STEVE MANN
- 100. Self-Portrait of Steve Mann Wearable Computing Apparatus( 1981)
- 101. Steve Mann Wearable Wireless Webcam December 13, 1994
- 109. Steve Mann Wearable Wireless Webcam December 13, 1994
- 113. Different types of input…
- 114. Mika Satomi — V2 Institute for the Unstable Media
- 115. Kelly DobsonMIT
- 116. Remote Impact Boxing From a Distance
- 118. Different types of input devices.
- 119. Different types of input devices.
- 120. MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interface Group
- 121. Different types of input devices.
- 122. Belt
- 124. Thanks, Gnomedex! http://cyborgcamp.com @caseorganic caseorganic@gmail.com
- 125. Steve Mann Wearable Wireless Webcam December 13, 1994
Editor's Notes
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- Francis HEYLIGHEN CLEA, Free University of Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium E-mail: fheyligh@vub.ac.beABSTRACT. The organismic view of society is updated by incorporating concepts from cybernetics, evolutionary theory, and complex adaptive systems. Global society can be seen as an autopoietic network of self-producing components, and therefore as a living system or “superorganism”. Miller’s living systems theory suggests a list of functional components for society’s metabolism and nervous system. Powers’ perceptual control theory suggests a model for a distributed control system implemented through the market mechanism. An analysis of the evolution of complex, networked systems points to the general trends of increasing efficiency, differentiation and integration. In society these trends are realized as increasing productivity, decreasing friction, increasing division of labor and outsourcing, and increasing cooperativity, transnational mergers and global institutions. This is accompanied by increasing functional autonomy of individuals and organizations and the decline of hierarchies. The increasing complexity of interactions and instability of certain processes caused by reduced friction necessitate a strengthening of society’s capacity for information processing and control, i.e. its nervous system. This is realized by the creation of an intelligent global computer network, capable of sensing, interpreting, learning, thinking, deciding and initiating actions: the “global brain”. Individuals are being integrated ever more tightly into this collective intelligence. Although this image may raise worries about a totalitarian system that restricts individual initiative, the superorganism model points in the opposite direction, towards increasing freedom and diversity. The model further suggests some specific futurological predictions for the coming decades, such as the emergence of an automated distribution network, a computer immune system, and a global consensus about values and standards. KEYWORDS: superorganism, global brain, collective intelligence, cybernetics, networks, evolution, self-organization, society, globalization, complexity, division of labor, living systems.
- Francis HEYLIGHEN CLEA, Free University of Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium E-mail: fheyligh@vub.ac.beABSTRACT. The organismic view of society is updated by incorporating concepts from cybernetics, evolutionary theory, and complex adaptive systems. Global society can be seen as an autopoietic network of self-producing components, and therefore as a living system or “superorganism”. Miller’s living systems theory suggests a list of functional components for society’s metabolism and nervous system. Powers’ perceptual control theory suggests a model for a distributed control system implemented through the market mechanism. An analysis of the evolution of complex, networked systems points to the general trends of increasing efficiency, differentiation and integration. In society these trends are realized as increasing productivity, decreasing friction, increasing division of labor and outsourcing, and increasing cooperativity, transnational mergers and global institutions. This is accompanied by increasing functional autonomy of individuals and organizations and the decline of hierarchies. The increasing complexity of interactions and instability of certain processes caused by reduced friction necessitate a strengthening of society’s capacity for information processing and control, i.e. its nervous system. This is realized by the creation of an intelligent global computer network, capable of sensing, interpreting, learning, thinking, deciding and initiating actions: the “global brain”. Individuals are being integrated ever more tightly into this collective intelligence. Although this image may raise worries about a totalitarian system that restricts individual initiative, the superorganism model points in the opposite direction, towards increasing freedom and diversity. The model further suggests some specific futurological predictions for the coming decades, such as the emergence of an automated distribution network, a computer immune system, and a global consensus about values and standards. KEYWORDS: superorganism, global brain, collective intelligence, cybernetics, networks, evolution, self-organization, society, globalization, complexity, division of labor, living systems.
- PORTLABLE CONE OF SILENCE
- telenoiaTagged: academia, lingo, paranoia, technologyA term suggested by CAiiA-STAR, as a replacement term for paranoia. Telenoia suggests a move away from anxiety and fear in the face of the increasing integration of corporate information technologies with the human body. Ascott instead advocates an attempt to create new artistic models for consciousness and social organization in a environment of surveillance and control.Linkswikipedia: telenoia
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- I got this UB stick – it weighs like 3 tons.
- I got this UB stick – it weighs like 3 tons.
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