Boris Johnson’s new cabinet gives us our latest example of left-right political travel. From circles around the Revolutionary Communist Party to the inner circle of the Boris Johnson’s new libertarian Cabinet:
… Left-Right Slipperiness
Powerful words from artist @Lowkey0nline
Link for Grenfell Silent Walk:
https://www.facebook.com/GrenfellSilentWalk/
Link for Grenfell Silent Walk Two Years On:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2408072305910220/
Link for Lowkey: https://twitter.com/lowkey0nline?lang=en
I have some relatively advanced work on a “universe” of concepts around Collective Intelligence. Many very different politics surface in a collective intelligence space, from a Brexity “Will of the People” to Zapatista inspired swarming strategies. Mapping out these concepts has many uses, and potentially it help us navigate the kind of “cognitive slippage” between left and right popular approaches. For any map to be accessible and actually usable for a wide range of people, it needs to be attractive, intuitive and easy to use. Data visualisation techniques seem key here, which leads us to Gephi, and also “Arc Diagram” code which I found through the brilliant Dictionary of the Revolution project.
… Learning Gephi from Zero #4: conceptual networks in Gephi and Arc diagrams
Many versions of collective intelligence are active around us. From the social media Hive Mind, to wikipedia’s Wisdom of the Crowd, to the ant colonies under our feet, to Extinction Rebellion’s swarming tactics, to talk of citizen assemblies solving Brexit or even climate change. To name but a few. My PhD aims to organise different conceptualisations and manifestations of collective intelligence into written and visual meta-analysis. In the wider video work, I am also working with audio-visual analysis and am currently exploring “The Sound of the Hive”. In other words, exploring an understanding of collective intelligence and the hive, through sound and patterns of sounds.
… How do you define collective intelligence?The many faces of Gaia, the Brexit Party’s bottom-up policy project and the connections in between. To be continued….
… Left-Right Political Slipperiness in green and Brexit lands
Video of night-time vigils in Mexico City following the disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa students in the hands of the police (7th November 2014). Video from @FrictionFilms during the pilot study of the Collective Intelligence PhD.
