Alright, I’m a bit distracted, and this is slightly outside of CTlab interests. Still, it’s pretty neat. According to New Scientist, the video “shows that an army of swarmbots belonging to researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland can work together to pull off quite a feat – transporting a small girl across the floor. What happens next remains a mystery.” One envisions the possibilities…

Not a clue what this is, but love it. Has me thinking we should add a visual streams section to The Review, just for this kind of stuff.

Thoughts?

My review of Antoine Bousquet’s book The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity (Hurst & Co Publishers in the UK, Columbia University Press in the US), entitled “How Technology Changes Our Thinking About War,” is now up at Noah Shachtman’ Danger Room blog at Wired. The only thing I’d add is that Bousquet obviously built his book around a lot more than just the authors who’re named (Manuel DeLanda, among others, prominent among those not named). I’d also add that the spatial element of chaoplexic warfare needs to be further explored, which is why I think the forthcoming ICA talk entitled “The Cybernetic Way of Warfare”, which puts Bousquet in conversation with Eyal Weizman,  will be fascinating. Stay tuned, because CTlab will be covering it and hosting the streaming video on these pages.

Considering the deployment of YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, the mobilization of viral armies, and the management of public perceptions, this live streaming video feed from Gaza – and all the rest of it – suggests something interesting about the Military Industrial Media Entertainment Network and the general conduct of war. I’m not sure what yet. I’ll come back to it.

Considering the deployment of YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, the mobilization of viral armies, and other issues relevant to managing public perception of the conflict, this live streaming video feed from Gaza suggests something interesting  about voyeurism, transparency, MIME-Net, and the general conduct of war.