Ambience_Kyiv_24_02_22

Ambience_Kyiv_24_02_22

I’ve been thinking about the logic of these air raid sirens. We are told the automatic system reads the space of the entire Ukraine and identifies the trajectory of a potential rocket flight, then the alert goes off in all cities and towns in its way. In moments like this, we are probably all united by the flight of the rocket, with most of us probably sharing the same affect. This is a profoundly cybernetic event of control and communication in the animal and the machine: an intermixing of complex heterogenous systems at a huge scale.

Notes of Lev Manovich, February 24/March 6, 2022

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