Zootechnologies : A Media History of Swarm Research.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (401 pages)
- Recursions Series .
- Recursions Series .
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I. Deformations: A Media Theory of Swarming -- 1. Theory: Noise -- Amalgamations of Perplexity -- Bodies without Surfaces -- The Paradox of the Parasite -- Radical Relationality -- 2. Historiography: Recursion -- Media-Becoming -- Repetition and Variation -- 3. Epistemology: Computer Simulation -- Mindsets of Messiness -- The Governmental Constitution of the Present -- II. Formations -- 1. Odd Birds -- Sportsmen without Swarm Spirit -- Wave Events -- The Psychology of the Fish School -- 2. On the Edge -- Seeing Fish: Between Observation and Experimentation -- The Psychomechanics of the Periphery -- Animal Aggregations -- III. Formats -- 1. Fishy Business: Media Technologies of Observation and Experimentation -- 2. Plunging into the Deep -- Writing in Water -- The Linearity of the Doughnut: Swimming with the Current -- Hand Digitizing: Data Tablets -- 3. Fishmen -- From the 'Institute in the Cellar' to the Open Sea -- "Half Tarzan, Half Grzimek" -- The Subaquatic Astronaut -- Swarm Research in the Open Water -- 4. Acoustic Visualization -- Noisy Targets: Copulating Shrimp and Flatulent Herring -- Pings -- Blobs -- Oriented Particles -- IV. Formulas -- 1. Models as Media -- 2. Synchronization Projects -- Elementary Operations -- Synchronized Swimming -- Alpha Rhythm -- A Race for Relaxation -- 3. Anchovy ex Machina -- Falling into Formation -- Sensory Integration Systems -- 3. The Third Dimension of Science -- Space Lattices and Crystalized Schools -- SelFish Behavior -- 4. Ahead of Their Time: Schooling Simulations in Japan -- V. Transformations -- 1. Fish and Chips -- 2. Agent Games -- Playing with Fire -- The Boid King -- Artifishial Life -- Cellular Automata -- Object Orientation -- The KISS Principle -- Simulation and Similarity -- Massive Attack. 3. Written in Their Own Medium -- Self-Propelled Particles -- Traffic Rules in Fish Schools -- Robofish: Empiricism Strikes Back -- VI. Zootechnologies -- 1. Drone Swarms, or Upside-Down Evolution -- Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control -- Swarm Robotics -- Weapons of Mass Production, or: An Abuse of Consumer Electronics -- 2. Swarming Out -- 3. Swarm Architecture -- Shaken or Stirred: Do I Look Like I Give a Damn? -- Cultural Techniques and Architecture -- From Insect Media to Bodies with a Vector -- Constructing Collectives -- Superconnected Idiots Savants -- 4. Calculating Survival: Crowd Control -- From Mass Panic to Crowd Dynamics -- Crowd Sensing and Foggy Logic -- Conclusion -- Works Cited.