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Information & Associativity as
v1.14, 29.11.2010
Klaus Wassermann
Aspects of Urban Entanglements
Associativity and other Wurban Things
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its gonna be abstract.
(partially)
... fortunately nothing (brand) new.
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Densification and its consequences
strong emergence vs. controllabilityfunctionality vs. quality
structure vs. infrastructure
What exactly is the novel aspect?
web of things
web of people WOP
WOT
web of documents WOD
Nothing New... 20 Years of W** words
web of money WOM
web of websWOW
mediality
... the Double You?
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an
urban
-
material-proto-
inter-net
in steel &
glass
The Manhattan Syndrome
the urban & the webshare „essential“ properties...
associativity
inherent heterotopia
information as driving entity
high density
mediagenicity
reasoningreasoning in the immaterial domain
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Description
The basic Thesis
City
Life Formsa variety of rather new
abstract entity
WebThe Urban
more or less
WebThe Urban
The Wurban
new modes of
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Part 1: Information
Why
How
gap between practice and theory
weak theory influences practice
to speak about it?
to conceive it?
„mathematical information“ became a dogma
pure syntactic approach
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Shannon, Weaver (1948) Information H = p log p
_
Roots (of information as a concept)
etymology (classic)
Wiener (1961)
„to inform a person, to educate her (giving a form)“
„Information is information, not matter or energy.“
measure for uncertainty in the context of transmitting a fixed and fully known alphabet
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Heterogeneity of the Concept
Warren Weaver, 1948
(1) technical (Shannon's theory)
(2) semantic (meaning and truth)
(3) “influential” (impact and effectiveness on human behaviour)
tripartite analysis of information
these aspects could not be separated from each other W.Weaver also thought that
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What is information?
How to conceive of it ?
What is info
„ “
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virtuality
Hint from Everyday Language...
information as
... interpreted data
... a set of symbols which organize potential action
semantics
How to formalize that ?
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Information
completely based on interpretation („subjective“)
information is nothing which could „exist“
...is information out there ?
...it can be found & retrieved ?
: a Candidate for Re-Design
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Information, an extended View
Dimensions of Information
Form
Effectiveness
Extension
bytes – words – images – music – behavior – narration
reliability, certainty, relative completeness
strictness of encoding/decoding requires context, thus: reference to convention, interpretation
incommensurability of aspectstechnical, semantic, influentialformal, virtual, immaterial, but
storable?
01001001 00101001 11101101 00010010
010 001 0010 1 111 101 00012 10
resolution sampling rate: 46kHz or 128kHz ...
...this can even be formalized !yet not in an „objective“ way
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Information – a 3-“dimensional“ Category
reference for translations,no quarrels about ontologies
phenomenology of information becomes constructible
it contains *any* concept of information
The unified perspective „accidential“ reductionism
allows to avoid
extension effectiveness
form
context, encoding
0010101
completeness
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Additionally: A Dualistic Embedding
modeling
decoherence
information
D-
causality
causality information
measurement
observation
single
repeated story telling
causa finalis
belief structures
interaction
behavior
...a tricky Language Game...
reversibility ir-reversibility
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Part 2: Networks & Associativity
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logistics in the (infinite)
plain(s) ideologistics
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hubs, scale-free
hierarchical
fractal
deterministic
growth by causality
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rhizomatic
growth by informational supermerge
redundant
recurrent
probabilistic
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Logistic Networks
are the great Optimizers
of identified Relations
Logistic Networks
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are the great Inducers and Inventors
of potential Relations
yet to be constructed
Associative Networks
Randolations
Associative Networks
Randomized Relation
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self-organizing map self-organizing map (SOM)(SOM) mapping of n-dimensional mapping of n-dimensional
descriptions descriptions
onto a 2-dimensional maponto a 2-dimensional map
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trafficpeople
buildings
Urban Associativity
simulations of particular networks
we „find“ associativity in
cities
informational behavior = the WEB
: A Wurban Thing
associativity creates patterns, information
by feeding ‚autonomously‘ on the dissipative
streams of the entangled bodies beneath ants
rules
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WURB
Information
Rob van Kranenburg - A critique of ambient technology (2008)
How will the next Wave of Densification look like ??<open, decentralized, „democratic,“ artful,
funny ...>?... how to deal with the current one??<as a general practice of abstract synaesthecism>?
Information is a deep concept.virtual, 3-dim, basic for associativity
Wittgenstein: Performance precedes applicable Logics. Putnam: Practice is primary.
We have to care about the Form of Life, about possible performances, and the potential of subtle & situational responses
... not sticking to logistics & rigorous identification !
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The limiting borders of my language are the limiting borders of my world.
Wittgenstein
For the world of information we
(probably) have now an extension.
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Merci!Fin et