a matter of algorithms

Good thing the internet is so full of stuff always, so I don'¨t have to feel bad about not posting regularly, would love to, but, well... enough of that. Here are some thoughts in the making of an article for a collection on sustainability as a cultural concept, which will be published in january 2008 with Sacha Kagan as editor and a lot of beautiful contributions, more about that later.

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I am working on building in a concept of the algorithm into the theory of eventality that I am using to describe the kinds of changes that seem to me to be called for if "sustainable culture" is to make its way into our worlds of social interaction.

Now, the problem of course is that where the event is also a logical and mathematical term, it also has a range of other uses, so I can allow myself to work through it without too much worrying about the mix of humanities and mathematics in that work. Whereas the algorithm is obviously a mathematical term, and I know already that if I start using it seriously, and people start reading this, I will be accused of transferring uncritically ideas from mathematics (and bad maths, as I am no mathematician) to matters of culture - which will probably be seen as a sin to both one field and the other.

So why speak of algorithms at all? And what is the relevance of algorithms when sepaking of events?