Seminar: Algorithmic Intermediation and Smartness

What forms of futurity, speculation, and life do algorithmic intermediations produce? To explore this it seems expedient to focus on “smartness,” a term legitimating—as in the “smart home”—the increased introduction of computation in social life.

Prologue

“The horizontalization of relations in the digital age may be an echo of something that has already happened in the biological realm in previous periods.” Stéphane Grumbach and Robert Mitchell on algorithms, the meaning of smartness, and why they want seminar participants to develop disaster apps.

Algorithmic Intermediation and Smartness - Interview with Stéphane Grumbach and Robert Mitchell

Output

contribution
Olivier Hamant
Suboptimalism
Biology is resilient because it is suboptimal at all scales. The technosphere, however, seems to take the route of increased optimization. Are we doomed?

Reflection, Monitoring, Modeling, Biosphere, Computation, Contingency, Big data, System
contribution
Bernard Geoghegan, Stéphane Grumbach, Orit Halpern, Olivier Hamant, Mark Hansen, Erich Hörl, Robert Mitchell
Seminar Reflections: Algorithmic Intermediation and Smartness
Reflection, Complexity, Computation, Governance, Big data, System
contribution
Svenja Schüffler
KAIROS Earthquake Early Warning Application
An algorithmic intermediation between the next mega-earthquake and you: instructions for turning risk into facing up to your danger.

Case Study, Engagement, Intervention, Computation, Complexity, System, Disaster, Big data, Care, Seismic