Welcome to the Swarm

The text explores online swarms as decentralized networks of individuals and algorithms acting collectively, highlighting their coordination, lifecycle, and contrasts with other online formations like communities and organizations.

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The hive is a smarter, evolved network that is bigger than the sum of its parts. The hive:
from The Hive is the New Network by Arjun Sethi
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The swarm presents as a mass rather than a unitary enemy and offers no obvious target; thinking as a single superorganism, the swarm is elusive, ephemeral, in flight. Like
from The Queer Art of Failure (a John Hope Franklin Center Book) by Jack Halberstam
We find the eusocial intelligence of insects like ants and bees particularly striking, since the swarm appears so much more intelligent than the automaton individuals, yet we turn our own much more capable coordination mechanisms, such as markets, bureaucracies and corporations, into cartoon antagonists for courageous rebels operating individually ... See more
from Graph Minds by Substack
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from The Hive is the New Network by Arjun Sethi

from The Queer Art of Failure (a John Hope Franklin Center Book) by Jack Halberstam

from Graph Minds by Substack