Data conjugation as material enunciating itself. What information is organizing & how it is organizing: what it can & cannot control. A matter of scale: the problem of reductionism between scales. Logic of geographic supervision: concretized barriers of inside/outside: Xeno & xenophobe: direct response to control the deterritorialized users. Delamination of geography from jurisdiction: no longer guarantee of sovereignty. Tech access offering a de facto sovereignty in contradiction to territorialized sovereignty. Not one unified system of computational species but multiple- interdependent upon each other, not reducible to its parts, interrelated & dependent, the specificity of scale & functions is analogous to the hardware/software stack. Stack: diagram: a reductive model but also projecting a machinic function.

Schmidt: "nomos": the space of the political, spatial imaginary that cleaves the earth physically into delineated territories: the cutting up (writing in the soil) produces the political tensions, identity, etc. Nomos: the logic of this subdivision, the order emerges from that logic. Naval imaginary: calculated logical projection over the chaotic swells of the sea, instigates a demolition of the real. <<<<< Arial supervision of space makes the land into the sea: traveling in a straight line. The radio spectrum: EM spectrum. THE CLOUD is a heavy hungry meta machine, very physical while also occupying invisible noumenous spaces. Sites are demarcate entitlement to closed loops: a horizontal representation - flatness of the cartographic representation.

The U-Shaped arch of the columns of the stack, delineating & communicating responsibilities/specifications/functions of each layer: a "Ship of Theseus" infrastructure (system is set up to be replaced, but continues to remain the same).

Planetary scale computation & neoliberal capitalism being intertwined double-helix.

Platforms: standardization of components to make accessible to their users: urban grid. The syntax of the movements but does not determine the movement of the content. A specifically structured diagram for the terms of engagement/interaction, as opposed to a superimposed master plan determining how it will play out. A strict imposition of an invariable mechanism. Platforms are the third form after states & markets. Can we build the stack fast enough in order to avoid the problems of building the stack itself?

The sensing produces the claim to the territory. The capacity to rationalize & organize information that is sensed is key to platform sovereignty. Redefinition of the ownership of data occurring stack by stack (inter-stack warfare).

Plasticity (vs abstraction) & plastic (petroleum based materiality): which is a metaphor for which? Like Mortens hyper-objects: difficult to describe yet we are working within everyday. "Are we witnessing the engineering of an ancestor?" > the stack to come. Yes it's an ancestor machine: the diagram may hold but is set up to be replaced by future developments: it has its own descendants: Amira's proposition of a new endogeneity - we are witnessing the limits of this concept in relation to nativism generally.

Anthropometric projections towards the anthropomorphic shaping of land rights/claims discourses. Less about resolution - Kantian cosmopolitan resolution - as much as overlaying & grinding of simultaneous - dis-sensual order of spaces operating simultaneously. Users as in-motion atomic circulation around the centralized fundament of the city rooted to a specific geo-location.

3 problem spaces:

AI built into this structure, the non-mind, less human & more alien mind, in regards our relation to matter. The city & the problem of urban design in an expanded sense of time: what's at stake for the consolidation of urbanization, tenuous relationship between cities & states. The larger network condition of urbanization as a whole. Trauma: violence producing the experience, also residue/response to the cut that ensues/reverberate/clear or occupy land. All that come afterwards are negotiating & being negotiated by. The effects are unnamed & yet eternally present in this ineffable non/presence. The procedurality of trauma. Consider these ideas in relation to a single assertion/propositional gesture. To disclose aspects of this triangulation as well as to present it in a specific way. Towards a point of ambivalence, to cultivate the ambiguity of the proposition, neither towards ultimate good or evil, a non-resolved problem enacted through the gesture.

Different kinds of designers:

City is already full of complex information that design is superimposed on top of.

"Programmers" recapitulating the inside of that preexisting information. Each nested within each other in a fractaline infinite regress. Cities are infrastructure for organisms which eat themselves: cannibalistic economy. The city as a site for potential urban scale design: not as but like a biochemical process at work at landscape scale. Not AI on the city - smart city discourse - as an instrument of municipal engineering management - but as an AI embodied as the city. Shift away from formal logical models - deductive gateways, top down, observed learning. Opposed to bottom up design, simple robotic species sensing the world around them - insect level phenomenology - can learn to sense things in their environment in a way which we may not be able to understand. It's ability for the AI to sense the world around it is inseparable from the intelligence, intelligence as an expression of that material instantiation. City laden with sensor networks connected to machine learning system - landscape scale distribution of sensor arrays connected to one or more AI - embodied at urban scale. Social dynamics of AI: predator/pray, pollination, colonizing, more or less indifferent to human circulation. Human: we are both sensors & sensed. Abstraction as a basic function of intelligence, not just signal & index of abstract forms, but to deploy - set in motion own feats of abstraction & to calibrate how they abstract us in turn. More synthetic biology than setting master plans in motion. Lamarcian transmission of capabilities: a change of behavior that changes the underlying code, implying a much broader view of speciation. Definition of city as gradient flow of density: decentered model: no exclusion.

Address: to be a person place or thing it must be nominated/designated/identified - functionally addressed in relation. Avogadro's number - assigning agency. It doesn't matter what it being addressed - a standard ambivalent addressing system, allowing something to be an entity to which things can be sent or from which things can be sent. Abstract syntax, assigning spatio-temporal coordination. Not an ontology: an artificial system: the whole table can be given an address or each of its components: whole or composite object. Aspects may appear which may have been previously unidentifiable. Deep addressibility: we've run out of IP addresses.

Ubiquitous computation: 10^23^ addresses per person: quantum addressing. Functionally complete if not ontologically complete = addressed & deferrable in one system without being visible to another. How to physically assign the address at a cellular/molecular scale? OOO: infinite sub-division of individual objects. The use of the software produces traces in the software itself.

Interface: boundary point which governs the relations between those systems. The interfaciality of the thing does not govern the relations between those things. "The mother of all demos." Diagrams: represent objects as well as the relations between those objects: one way chain of mimesis. GUI (Graphic User Interfaces) are two way mimesis: the chain of representation works back upon the thing itself. Images don't do/act back upon the thing - a fundamental shift on the history of the image itself. As interfaces multiple they form regimes, inevitably reduce all possibilities to a necessarily small/narrow array. GUI produces a diagram from infinite possibilities. Partially functional: a map that is the territory is non navigatable. The reduction of complexity is what makes them more useful. Metcafs law: the more nodes in the network the more valuable an individual node in the network becomes. AR: loss of interpretive distance. Anamnesis: the work of belief. Danger: political theology - we fear the militarization of perception itself. Ultimate individuation & ultimate plurisation.

Anthropocene is a certain kind of humanism which we must move beyond - the Copernican trauma, heliocentrism, etc. Today's surveillance culture: supervision in bad faith: reverse panopticon. The geophysiological profile of the big hull. Anthrocidal trauma: switch to focus to support of the post-human stack. Worse than being seen as threat is not being seen at all. Drawn by an inhuman & inhumanist form of finding. Computation itself turned into whatever meta-machine comes next.