Rauschen vs. kontrolle : eine parabel gegen die modellierung der zukunft

Models assume containment, they presume the three P’s rule: prediction, preemption, prevention. The ultimate technology of control, models exists in a closed, self-referential world of uninterrupted flows. No matter how dynamic the design of models, parameters are always and necessarily limited. Inputs/outputs, but never contingency: the revolt of the disaffected. Noise is the enemy of dashboard governance. This essay tests the status of noise today. Or rather, the status of the test is tested by noise. Noise is considered the original counterpart of the signal and heavily featured in all early theories of communication and cybernetics. In this all-digital age it looked, for a brief moment, as if noise had been conquered, negated, crushed. But then, inevitably, the suppressed returned. Noise returned as the unexpected revenge of externalities. The constitutive outside that forces change as the illegitimate agent. Filters break down, a virus enters the system, the inner psychic armour can no longer manage all the information. Big data become meaningless. Flows still flow but the digital perfection is one without a purpose.