Stigmergy is a method of communication in emergent systems in which the individual parts of the system communicate with one another by modifying their local environment.
Having recently read Emergence by Steve Johnson, I was surprised to not have run across this word before, although I have a feeling I passed over it without notice. From the comments of Rushkoff’s recent post on suicide bombings as viral media I read about the IED marketplace in Iraq which self-linked to a previous post on stimergy.
Things Not Overheard at a Conceptual-Art Gallery Opening.
Originally uploaded by seanaes.
sad old building on the lake with a storm approaching
semipermanent design conference september 9 & 10 in nyc
i am curently in alaska, outside fairbanks in particular, staying with my friends dharmesh and cassie. we got big plans to visit denali and the brooks range, above the arctic circle. firstly the midnight sun thing is strangly eerie, it throws off my ny/nj ability to tell time by lookiung at the sun or a shadow or saying “its been ohh about so long since it got dark so it must be 10:00 PM” here in alaska, now, there is no “night” per se, but a long daytime and a dawn/dusk. i’ve slept weird the last two “nights”, not in the bad movie insomnia kind of way but not nearly like a baby. too many airplane vodka drinks on the way (i arrived, ahem, tipsy)or some time-zone circadian rythem issues. visit my flickr for some action shots.
its now summer-ish. time to sleep witht the windows open until it is unbearable and then open the wallet tot pay for putting the air conditioner in the window. sleeping with open windows allows you to listen tot the wonders or the night and early morning.
– garbage man talks on cell phone while collecting
– guy with shopping cart like my street for picking from garbage, particularly
– cars are loud
im sure there are others.
not here. not there. not even a paper that was due weeks ago. this is terrible.
for networked expression we made a little carnivore client called gnats
watching the balloon scene from Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev in class today. Apparently Tarkovsky wrote a book called Sculpting in Time so given my pervious obsession with The Stalker while in architecture school im going to be reading this book soon.
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