presentation by brian cramer and staci hughes

• Paul Baran, Founding Father (2003)
• CH3: SAGE, Paul Edwards, The Closed World

• Policing the Spectrum, Manuel Delanda
• Postscript on the Societies of Control, G Deleuze]

1. what is the difference between command and control?
2. why would you want or need both in the design of a system (either living or engineered)?
3. Baran says that “the idea of packet-switching itself is very much cold war.”¹⁾ Wat do you think he means by that?
4. Why do you think that a system assembled fast/cheap/modular components would be more reliable than one assembled from custom parts? [give five reasons]. Subquestion: what did Google learn from this observation?
5. what is the difference between a message-based communication system and packet-based communication system? can you think of any natural systems that employ packet-based messages? Artwork? Other systems?

• Jim Campbell, Shadow (for Heisenberg)
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick, 1964

• thought experiment: command and control