Benjamin Bratton: Geobiopolitics and Planetary-Scale Computation: Sensors, Abstractors, Governors


SONIC ACTS FESTIVAL – THE GEOLOGIC IMAGINATION Benjamin Bratton: Geobiopolitics and Planetary-Scale Computation: Sensors, Abstractors, Governors 28 February 2015 - Paradiso, Amsterdam, the Netherlands --- Geography, geology and geodesy now converge on computational platforms to form interlocking information infrastructures. These infrastructures sense biochemical reserves, abstract their measure and status, and in turn provide a recursive medium for their governance. A panoptic eco-epistemology is created that could re-situate computational technology closer to its origins, suggest alternative geo-engineering projects, or inaugurate a new sovereignty of sensation. It’s a smart grid eating its own tail…

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