Nervöse Systeme

100 Years of Now Library
Editors: Anselm Franke, Stephanie Hankey and Marek Tuszynski
Publisher: Matthes & Seitz Berlin , 2017
224 pages, German
ISBN 978-3-95757-410-7
Price: 18 €

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Today, the nervous system has become the leitmotiv of an increasingly nervous, technologically highly equipped age. Companies talk about “smart nerves” and “synaptic real-time connections” as organizational solutions for almost any problem, whether in apparatuses of the state, economy or ecology. The volume examines how the new trust in technological solutions and databased algorithms, supported by data analysis, reality mining, pattern recognition and forecasts, has changed our understanding of the “self” and the “social.” It frames the examination of data in social and political strategies of the past hundred years.

100 Years of Now Library

How can the past be made fertile not as a relic, but as a lived experience for the present and future? From now until 2019, a series of publications will address this fundamental question of the 100 Years of Now project (2015–18) in 12 paradigmatic in-depth volumes.
Mar 10–May 9, 2016

Nervous Systems

Quantified Life and the Social Question

Can our inner thoughts be transmitted by our eye movements? Can our future actions be predicted by our current behavior? Julien Prévieux’s film Patterns of Life enacts more than a century of evolving technologies in tracking human behavior, from reorganizing the factory floor to today’s “activity-based intelligence” in the “war on terror.” This is but one example from over 30 works tracing the inversions that mark the relationship between man and machine.

Nervöse Systeme

100 Years of Now Library

Nervous Systems