Agentenspiele

Vehlken, Sebastian; Pias, Claus

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“…9 Based on factors such as age, income, occupational status, size of household, means of mobility (especially car ownership) or location, a complex distribution of contacts is modelled in order to observe how interactions affect and become affected by the dynamics of contagion (Del Val, 2016). In this way, agent-based models dissolve the social collective into a multiplicity of calculated and calculating agents (Vehlken and Pias, 2014: 168). They are a ‘media technology that offers insights into the fine granulate of societal coherency’ (p. 175).…”

Section: From Communication To Communicability: the Materiality Of Bementioning

confidence: 99%

Simulating the world

Opitz

2016

European Journal of Social Theory

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If the twentieth century was the age of the world picture taken as a photograph of the Whole Earth from outer space, today’s observations of the planet are produced by means of computer simulation. Pandemic models are of paramount sociological interest in this respect, since modelling contagion is closely intertwined with modelling the material connectivities of social life. By envisioning the global dynamics of disease transmission, pandemic simulations enact the relationscapes of a transnational world. This article seeks to analyse such an enactment: It asks how simulation methods can establish a particular relation to the social from within the social. To provide an answer to this question, and adopting Niklas Luhmann’s theory of world society, pandemic simulations are described as modes of global self-observation that can be specified factually, socially, spatially and temporally. They instantiate a ‘doubling of reality’ designed to apprehend the potential future threat of disease transmission along the pathways marked by global infrastructures. They constitute scopic regimes that virtually synthesize a global situation of universal communicability in order to turn the world into an object of political intervention.

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Section: From Communication To Communicability: the Materiality Of Bementioning

confidence: 99%

Simulating the world

Opitz

2016

European Journal of Social Theory

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Agentenspiele

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