These works span disciplines — science, theory, fiction, and art — and are deliberately meant to be unfamiliar at least in part to everyone. We ask that participants make a good-faith effort to read and engage with each work, noting down points of confusion, disagreement, and interest. Many of these texts are also discussed in the zettelkasten ↗.
More Is Different
Philip W. Anderson
Weak Emergence
Mark A. Bedau
Downward Causation and the Autonomy of Weak Emergence
Mark A. Bedau
Emergence
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Types and Forms of Emergence
Jochen Fromm
More Really Is Different
Mile Gu, Christian Weedbrook, Álvaro Perales, et al.
Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata: From Game of Life to Pattern Generation
Pietro Miotti, Eyvind Niklasson, Ettore Randazzo, et al.
A Topological Approach to the Problem of Emergence in Complex Systems
Alberto Pascual-García
An Information-Theoretic Approach to Self-Organisation
Fernando Rosas, Pedro A. M. Mediano, Martin Ugarte, et al.
On Assemblage: DeLanda's Theory
Andrew Ball
Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
Jane Bennett (excerpt)
Assemblage Theory
Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari — A Thousand Plateaus, pp. 11–13
Situated Knowledges
Donna Haraway
Assemblage
George E. Marcus & Erkan Saka
The Technologies of All Dead Generations
Ben Tarnoff
Unsettling the Coloniality of Being / Power / Truth / Freedom
Sylvia Wynter
Climate Change and the Imagination
Kathryn Yusoff & Jennifer Gabrys