User:Simon/Special Issue 8/summary first half trim

Mapping a network topology

Dependency mapping task

Collection of texts

Tung-Hui Hu: Truckstops on the Information Superhighway Paul Rand: Cybernetic Guerilla Warfare (Radical Software 1.3) R. Buckminster Fuller: Software (Radical Software 1.1)

> models such as klein worms, Ant Farm's Truckstops map gave me a way to visualise alternative approaches to mapping a network beyond the Baran models

Concept of paranode as suggested in Constant's Feminist Server Manifesto, and further explored by Zach Blas > I see paranode as a disruptive device, also not to do with physical devices (established as nodes, but instead on social and conceptual relations between people and the world)

Questions around mapping and autonomy vis a vis the map/territory problem & Hakim Bey's Temporary Autonomous Zones

Exploration of topology: Knot theory, Inca Quipu, Jacqueline de Jong's Situationist Times (particularly Issue 3: Topology), psychogeographic mapping of urban spaces as explored by SI derive

Seven Bridges of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia) as prefigure to topology and laying foundations for graphology (a graphic mapping of topologies)

Drawings of network devices - trying to visualise the invisible

Modularity

Small sculptural models of theoretical network topologies - knots

Loops laid into interface - modular Inspired by presentation of Plumbutter2 modular synthesiser