Blackouts
Last update: 21 Apr 2025 21:17First version: 1 February 2016
The moments when humanity confronts its own works and its aggregated actions as an objective, alien, and malign force. They are thus a proof that even full communism would not eliminate what Marx called "alienation", even though Marx thought otherwise. ---
- To read:
- Daniel Bienstock, Electrical Transmission Systems Cascades and Vulnerability: An Operations Research Viewpoint
- Ian Dobson, Benjamin A. Carreras, Vickie E. Lynch and David E. Newman, "Complex systems analysis of series of blackouts: Cascading failure, critical points, and self-organization", Chaos 17 (2007): 026103
- David E. Nye, When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America
- Dirk Witthaut, Frank Hellmann, Jürgen Kurths, Stefan Kettemann, Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns, and Marc Timme, "Collective nonlinear dynamics and self-organization in decentralized power grids", Reviews of Modern Physics 94 (2022): 015005
