I’ve been trying to figure out how monadic principles (fr.wikipedia is actually richer) can help us think online privacy. I’m in the early stage of writing a paper on the topic, so this is really work in progress, input welcome.
The monads I’m talking about are not the functional programming ones, nor the mathematical objects, but their inspiration: the philosophical monad which could be defined both as the entity generating all other entities but also the all encompassing entity. Bear with me, for the technically inclined, know that Alan Kay mentions Leibniz’s monads as one of the inspiration for object oriented programming.
I’ll explore in upcoming posts how Tarde’s monads could be used practically to rethink the design of online socio-technical systems such as social-networks, but maybe also how to deal with online profiling/advertising tools.
Posts to come:
- Introduction to Gabriel Tarde’s monadology via Bruno Latour
- Heterarchy
- Dividuel and online identities
- The parts are greater than the whole
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Humans and non-humans