Ben Woodard
writer · 2 mentions across 2 readings
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Ben Woodard is a theorist of non-humanoid life forms and materiality, best known for *Slime Dynamics*, which explores generation, mutation, and formless vitality as alternatives to organized systems. His work appears in the course as a counterpoint to swarm intelligence and agent-based models, offering a framework for thinking about protean, oozing matter that resists the clean logics of cybernetics and AI optimization. Woodard's slime dynamics sits alongside posthumanist theorists like Roden and Barad in the seminar's effort to unsettle assumptions about life, agency, and the boundaries between organism and system.
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