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[[Image:Lifeincode2.jpg|right|318x450px|LivingCodeSoftwareCover.jpg]] Mediated Life in a Complex Computational Ecology <br>[http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/ISBN_Numbers ISBN: 978-1-60785-283-4] <br>''edited by'' [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Life_in_Code_and_Software/bio David M. Berry] <br> __TOC__ == [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Life_in_Code_and_Software/Introduction '''Introduction: What is Code and Software?'''] == This book explores the relationship between living, code and software. Technologies of code and software increasingly make up an important part of our urban environment. Indeed, their reach stretches to even quite remote areas of the world. Life in Code and Software introduces and explores the way in which code and software are becoming the conditions of possibility for human living, crucially forming a computational ecology, made up of disparate software ecologies, that we inhabit. As such we need to take account of this new computational environment and think about how today we live in a highly mediated, code-based world. That is, we live in a world where computational concepts and ideas are foundational, or ontological, which I call computationality, and within which, code and software become the paradigmatic forms of knowing and doing. Such that other candidates for this role, such as: air, the economy, evolution, the environment, satellites, etc., are understood and explained through computational concepts and categories. [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Life_in_Code_and_Software/Introduction (more...)] == Thinking Software == <br> ;Eric W. Weisstein&nbsp; :[http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TuringMachine.html What is a Turing Machine?] ;David Barker-Plummer&nbsp; :[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-machine/ Turing Machines] ;Achim Jung&nbsp; :[http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axj/pub/papers/lambda-calculus.pdf A Short Introduction to the Lambda Calculus] ;Luciana Parisi &amp; Stamatia Portanova&nbsp; :[http://computationalculture.net/article/soft-thought Soft Thought (in architecture and choreography)] ;David M. Berry&nbsp; :[http://www.palgrave.com/PDFs/9780230292642.pdf Understanding Digital Humanities] ;Edsger W. Dijkstra&nbsp; :[http://www.u.arizona.edu/~rubinson/copyright_violations/Go_To_Considered_Harmful.html Go To Statement Considered Harmful] ;Alan M. Turing&nbsp; :[http://turing.ecs.soton.ac.uk/browse.php/B/9 Computing Machinery and Intelligence] ;Martin Gardner&nbsp; :[http://www.ibiblio.org/lifepatterns/october1970.html The Fantastic Combinations of John Conway's New Solitaire Game 'Life'] ;David Golumbia&nbsp; :[http://easyurltoremember.com/docs/papers/human-prepress.pdf Computation, Gender, and Human Thinking] ;Alan M. Turing&nbsp; :[http://turing.ecs.soton.ac.uk/browse.php/B/12 Extract from On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungs Problem] <youtube>E3keLeMwfHY</youtube>&nbsp; ''Video of a Turing Machine - Overview'' ;Kevin Slavin&nbsp; :[http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_slavin_how_algorithms_shape_our_world.html How Algorithms Shape Our World] <youtube>TDaFwnOiKVE</youtube>&nbsp; ''Video shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture.'' == Code Literacy ('iteracy') == <br> ;David M. Berry&nbsp; :[http://stunlaw.blogspot.com/2011/09/iteracy-reading-writing-and-running.html Iteracy: Reading, Writing and Running Code] ;Ian Bogost&nbsp; :[http://www.bogost.com/downloads/I.%20Bogost%20Procedural%20Literacy.pdf Procedural Literacy: Problem Solving with Programming, Systems, &amp; Play] ;Cathy Davidson&nbsp; :[http://dmlcentral.net/blog/cathy-davidson/why-we-need-4th-r-reading-writing-arithmetic-algorithms Why We Need a 4th R: Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic, algoRithms] ;Jeannette M. Wing&nbsp; :[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/wing/www/publications/Wing06.pdf Computational Thinking] ;Stephan Ramsay&nbsp; :[http://lenz.unl.edu/papers/2011/01/11/on-building.html On Building] ;Edsger W. Dijkstra&nbsp; :[http://virtual.itca.edu.sv/dokeos/sinapsis/cd/doctos-sw-libre/docus-ewd/EWD1036%20-%20On%20the%20cruelty%20of%20really%20teaching%20computing%20scienc.pdf On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computing Science] ;Louis McCallum and Davy Smith&nbsp; :[http://vimeo.com/20241649 Show Us Your Screens] {{#widget:Vimeo|id=20241649}}&nbsp; ''A short documentary about live coding practise by Louis McCallum and Davy Smith.'' ;Jeannette M. Wing&nbsp; :[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Pq4N-iE4I Computational Thinking and Thinking About Computing'] <youtube>C2Pq4N-iE4I</youtube>&nbsp; ''Wing argues that computational thinking will be a fundamental skill used by everyone in the world. To reading, writing, and arithmetic, she adds computational thinking to everyones' analytical ability.'' ;why the lucky stiff&nbsp; :[http://vimeo.com/5047563 Hackety Hack: Learning to Code] {{#widget:Vimeo|id=5047563}}&nbsp; ''why the lucky stiff (or _why) is a computer programmer, talking about learning to code.'' == Decoding Code == <br> ;David M. Berry&nbsp; :[http://thirteen.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-086-a-contribution-towards-a-grammar-of-code/ A Contribution Towards a Grammar of Code] ;Mark C. Marino&nbsp; :[http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/codology Critical Code Studies] ;Lev Manovich&nbsp; :[http://lab.softwarestudies.com/2008/11/softbook.html Software Takes Command] ;Dennis G. Jerz&nbsp; :[http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/001/2/000009/000009.html Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther's Original "Adventure" in Code and in Kentucky] ;Aleksandr Matrosov, Eugene Rodionov, David Harley, and Juraj Malcho, J.&nbsp; :[http://go.eset.com/us/resources/white-papers/Stuxnet_Under_the_Microscope.pdf Stuxnet Under the Microscope] ;Ralph Langner&nbsp; :[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS01Hmjv1pQ Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century Cyber Weapon] <youtube>CS01Hmjv1pQ</youtube>&nbsp; ''A fascinating look inside cyber-forensics and the processes of reading code to understand how it works and what it attacks.'' ;Stephen Ramsay&nbsp; :[http://vimeo.com/9790850 Algorithms are Thoughts, Chainsaws are Tools] {{#widget:Vimeo|id=9790850}} <br>''A short film on livecoding presented as part of the Critical Code Studies Working Group, March 2010, by Stephen Ramsay. Presents a "live reading" of a performance by composer Andrew Sorensen.'' ;Wendy Chun&nbsp; :[http://vimeo.com/16328263 Critical Code Studies] {{#widget:Vimeo|id=16328263}} <br>''Wendy Chun giving a lecture on code studies and reading source code.'' ;Federica Frabetti&nbsp; :[http://vimeo.com/16263212 Critical Code Studies] {{#widget:Vimeo|id=16263212}} <br>''Federica Frabetti giving a lecture on code studies and reading source code.'' ;David M. Berry&nbsp; :[http://vimeo.com/39256099 Thinking Software: Realtime Streams and Knowledge in the Digital Age] {{#widget:Vimeo|id=39256099}} <br>''As software/code increasingly structures the contemporary world, curiously, it also withdraws, and becomes harder and harder for us to focus on as it is embedded, hidden, off-shored or merely forgotten about. The challenge is to bring software/code back into visibility so that we can pay attention to both what it is (ontology/medium), where it has come from (media archaeology/genealogy) but also what it is doing (through a form of mechanology), so we can understand this ‘dynamic of organized inorganic matter’.'' == Software Ecologies == <br> ;Gabriella Coleman&nbsp; :[http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/09/the-anthropology-of-hackers/63308/ The Anthropology of Hackers] ;Felix Guattari&nbsp; :[http://www.amielandmelburn.org.uk/collections/newformations/08_131.pdf The Three Ecologies] ;Robert Kitchin&nbsp; :[http://www.envplan.com/epb/editorials/b3806com.pdf The Programmable City] ;Bruno Latour&nbsp; :[http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/123-WHOLE-PART-FINAL.pdf The Whole is Always Smaller Than Its Parts- A Digital Test of Gabriel Tarde’s Monads] ;Mathew Fuller and Sonia Matos&nbsp; :[http://nineteen.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-135-feral-computing-from-ubiquitous-calculation-to-wild-interactions/ Feral Computing: From Ubiquitous Calculation to Wild Interactions] ;Jussi Parikka&nbsp; :[http://seventeen.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-116-media-ecologies-and-imaginary-media-transversal-expansions-contractions-and-foldings/ Media Ecologies and Imaginary Media: Transversal Expansions, Contractions, and Foldings] ;David Gelernter&nbsp; :[http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/gelernter10/gelernter10_index.html Time to Start Taking the Internet Seriously] ;Adrian Mackenzie&nbsp; :[http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/mackenza/papers/code-leviathan.pdf The Problem of Computer Code: Leviathan or Common Power?] ;Adrian Mackenzie&nbsp; :[http://thirteen.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-085-wirelessness-as-experience-of-transition/ Wirelessness as Experience of Transition] ;Thomas Goetz&nbsp; :[http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/06/ff_feedbackloop/ Harnessing the Power of Feedback Loops] ;Christian Ulrik Andersen &amp; Søren Pold&nbsp; :[http://nineteen.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-133-the-scripted-spaces-of-urban-ubiquitous-computing-the-experience-poetics-and-politics-of-public-scripted-space/ The Scripted Spaces of Urban Ubiquitous Computing: The Experience, Poetics, and Politics of Public Scripted Space] ;B.J. Fogg, Gregory Cuellar, and David Danielson&nbsp; :[http://bjfogg.com/hci.pdf Motivating, Influencing, and Persuading Users] ;Alexander R. Galloway&nbsp; :[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBZPJNoJWHk "Deleuze and Computers" - Alexander R. Galloway] <youtube>fBZPJNoJWHk</youtube>&nbsp; ''"Deleuze and Computers" - a lecture by Alexander R. Galloway at the W.E.B. Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on December 2nd, 2011.'' ;Gary Wolf&nbsp; :[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrAo8oBBFIo The Quantified Self] <youtube>OrAo8oBBFIo</youtube>&nbsp; ''The notion of using computational devices in everyday life to record everything about you.'' ;Gary Kovacs&nbsp; :[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_f5wNw-2c0 Tracking the Trackers] <youtube>f_f5wNw-2c0</youtube>&nbsp; ''As you surf the Web, information is being collected about you.'' ;Michael Najjar&nbsp; :[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_yTN0-Xd68 How Art Envisions Our Future] <youtube>4_yTN0-Xd68</youtube>&nbsp; ''Data, information, computation, and technology mediated through art'' == [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Life_in_Code_and_Software/Attributions '''Attributions'''] == == A 'Frozen' PDF Version of this Living Book == ; [http://livingbooksaboutlife.org/pdfs/bookarchive/LifeinCode.pdf Download a 'frozen' PDF version of this book as it appeared on 13th July 2012]

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