Another Blemish On My Data Body

Just throwing this in to convince myself of my own productivity.

Some notes I made this week. (Some of which was spent with none of the below).

keywords / buzzwords / dot com doublespeak / tags / concepts / b.s. / statistically improbable phrases:

Why do I see ambient informatics lumped in with “urban computing?” What about agriculture and aquaculture?

• ambient informatics, locative media, urban computing
• augmented reality
• systems disruption
• ubiquitous computing / ubicomp
• swarms / self-regulation / stigmergy
• hertzian space
• feral cities / failed states
• “The patina of life,” (Christopher Alexander).

things to investigate / misc notes to self:

• military implementations of ambient informatics. I think some are referenced in Swarming and The Future of Conflict. (Arquilla & Ronfeldt)
• agricultural implementations of sensor grid computing
• information gathering behaviors: berry picking in a target rich environment, berrypicking vs. scab picking
• information buoyancy vs. personal helicopter
• “usable” data body and self-censorship: archive.org and running for potus
• models that allow us to consider the spatialization of people (urban planning, urban geography) and the spatialization of data (personal helicopter (war and cinema?) vs. aquamonkey): graph theory? botanic architecture? others?
• historical examples > conceptual models

things I read:

Need to start taking better notes. Don’t remember some of this too well.

Some of these are blog entries that I printed out (I hate reading on screen). For inconsistency’s sake, I am not recording the things that I read on screen (usually articles less than four or five paragraphs). I didn’t keep track of them. I need to get better at recording hyperlinks on the fly.

No specific order, mixed bibliographic formats.

Sorry, Out of Gas: Architecture’s Response To The Oil Crisis. Giovanna Borasi and Mirko Zardini

The Geography of Nowhere. James Howard Kunstler

The Works: Anatomy of a City. Kate Ascher.

Who Cares About Our Conceptual System? Johanna Brewer

Feral Cities: The New Strategic Environment. Richard J. Norton.

Wikipedia entry on Storm Botnet

Information As A Cultural Category. Paul Dourish, Johanna Brewer, Genevieve Bell.

The Neurobiopolitcs of Global Consciousness. Warren Neidich (Sarai Reader 2006: Turbulence)

Various old posts to Masters of Media blog.

http://openfarmtech.org Global Village Construction Set

This was a nice ubicomp / ambient informatics overview

Towards an Ambient Informatics: Ubiquitous Computing and Human Information Behavior. Timothy Boyd.

pdf was free online

Territory, Authority, Rights (Ch. 1). Saskia Sassen

Mobile Space Is Women’s Place: Reframing Mobile Phones and Gender In An Urban Context. Molly Wright Steenson

The Value of Believing in Free Will: Encouraging a Belief In Determinism Increases Cheating. Kathleen D. Vohs and Jonathan W. Schooler

Peak Oil: Whom to Believe? Part 1: There’s Plenty of Oil, CERAiously

Urban Computing and Its Discontents. Adam Greenfield and Mark Shepard.

Nice historical overview of systems theory.

Systemics and Cybernetics in a Historical Perspective. Charles François

Bioeffects of Selected Nonlethal Weapons. Dept. of Army Response to FOIA req. linked on cryptome.

Al Qaeda and Its Affiliates: A Global Tribe Waging Segmented Warfare? David Ronfeldt.

Mathematics of Preservation and The Future of Urban Ruins. BLDGBLOG post.

America the Resilient. GlobalDashboard.org. Alex Evans.

Need to read Osinga’s book on Boyd.

Open Decision Making. John Robb @ Global Guerillas.

If peak oil, then what about “information economy” and education?

Human Capital at http://www.futurescenarios.org/content/view/18/55

The Future of Urbanization. Enterprise Resilience Management Blog.

Vengeance Is Ours. Jared Diamond in The New Yorker.

Good overview of social science applications of network model.

Panarchy: Governance In The Digital Age. Paul B. Hartzog.

things to look up:

No specific order, mixed bibliographic formats.

Albrechtslund, Anders. Online Social Networking As Participatory Surveillance. First Monday, 2008.

Bogard, William. The Simulation of Surveillance: Hypercontrol In Telematic Societies. Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Martin Dodge & Rob Kitchen. Mapping Cyberspace. Routledge, 2001, NY.

Celia Lury. Just Do What? The Brand As New Media Object. Inaugural address given at Goldsmiths College, London, 2004.

“Thinking About Cities As Spatial Events.” Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 129, No.1 (Jan. 2002) p.1-2. Michael Batty.

Ivan D. Illich, Energy and Equity. (London: Calder and Boyers: 1974).

Ivan D. Illich, Toward a History of Needs (New York: Pantheon, 1978).

Buckland, M. 1991. “Information As Thing.” Journal of the American Society of Information Science, 42(5), 351 - 260.

Day, R. 2001. The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History and Power. Southern Illinois University Press.

Weiser, M. 1991. “The Computer For The 21st Century.” Scientific American, 265(3), 94-104.

Hallnäs, L., Jaksetic, P. Ljungstrand, P., Redström, J. and Skog, T. “Expressions: Toward A Design Practice of Slow Technology.” Proceeding of Interact 2001 (Tokyo, Japan), 105 Press.

Anthony Townsend. “Wired/Unwired: The Urban Geography of Digital Networks.”