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Mediated life in a complex computational ecology

ISBN: 978-1-60785-XXX-X
edited by David Berry

Introduction: What is code and software?

This book explores the relationship between living and code and software. It does so because these technologies increasingly make up an important part of our urban environment, and indeed stretching even to very remote areas of the world. The book introduces and explores the way in which code and software become the conditions of possibility for human living, crucially becoming a computational ecology which we inhabit. As such we need to take account of this new computational world and think about how we live today in a highly mediated code-based world. Computer code and software are not merely mechanisms, they represent an extremely rich form of media. They differ from previous instantiations of media forms in that they are highly processual. They can also have agency delegated to them, which they can then prescribe back onto other actors, but which also remain within the purview of humans to seek to understand. (more...)

Thinking Software

Eric W. Weisstein: What is a Turing Machine?

David Barker-Plummer: Turing Machines

Achim Jung: A short introduction to the Lambda Calculus

Luciana Parisi & Stamatia Portanova: Soft Thought (in architecture and choreography)

David M. Berry: Understanding Digital Humanities

Edsger W. Dijkstra: Go To Statement Considered Harmful

Alan M. Turing: Computing machinery and intelligence

Martin Gardner: The fantastic combinations of John Conway's new solitaire game "life"

Alan M. Turing: Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungs problem

Video of a Turing Machine - Overview

Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world

Video shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture.

Code Literacy ('iteracy')

David M. Berry: Iteracy: Reading, Writing and Running Code

Ian Bogost: Procedural Literacy: Problem Solving with Programming, Systems, & Play

Cathy Davidson: Why We Need a 4th R: Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic, algoRithms

Jeannette M. Wing: Computational Thinking

Stephan Ramsay: On Building

Edsger W. Dijkstra: On the cruelty of really teaching computing science

Louis McCallum and Davy Smith: Show Us Your Screens

A short documentary about live coding practise by Louis McCallum and Davy Smith.

Jeannette M. Wing: Computational Thinking and Thinking About Computing'

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.

Decoding Code

David M. Berry: A Contribution Towards a Grammar of Code

Mark C. Marino: Critical Code Studies

Lev Manovich: Software Takes Command

Dennis G. Jerz: 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.: Stuxnet Under the Microscope

Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon

A fascinating look inside cyber-forensics and the processes of reading code to understand how it works and what it attacks.

Stephen Ramsay: Algorithms are Thoughts, Chainsaws are Tools

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: Critical Code Studies

Wendy Chun giving a lecture on code studies and reading source code.

Federica Frabetti: Critical Code Studies

Federica Frabetti giving a lecture on code studies and reading source code.

Software Ecologies

Gilles Deleuze: Postscript on the Societies of Control

Felix Guattari: The Three Ecologies

Robert Kitchin: The Programmable City

Bruno Latour: The Whole is Always Smaller Than Its Parts- A Digital Test of Gabriel Tarde’s Monads

Mathew Fuller and Sonia Matos: Feral Computing: From Ubiquitous Calculation to Wild Interactions

Jussi Parikka: Media Ecologies and Imaginary Media: Transversal Expansions, Contractions, and Foldings

David Gelernter: Time to start taking the Internet seriously

Adrian Mackenzie: The Problem of Computer Code: Leviathan or Common Power?

Adrian Mackenzie: Wirelessness as Experience of Transition

Thomas Goetz: Harnessing the Power of Feedback Loops

Christian Ulrik Andersen & Søren Pold: The Scripted Spaces of Urban Ubiquitous Computing: The experience, poetics, and politics of public scripted space

B.J. Fogg, Gregory Cuellar, and David Danielson: Motivating, Influencing, and Persuading Users

Gary Wolf: The quantified self

The notion of using computational devices in everyday life to record everything about you.

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+<br> [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/ISBN_Numbers ISBN: 978-1-60785-XXX-X] <br> ''edited by'' [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Life_in_Code_and_Software/bio David Berry]
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+== [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Life_in_Code_and_Software/Introduction '''Introduction: What is code and software?''']  ==
-[http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Life_in_Code_and_Software/Attributions Attributions]
+This book explores the relationship between living and code and software. It does so because these technologies increasingly make up an important part of our urban environment, and indeed stretching even to very remote areas of the world. The book introduces and explores the way in which code and software become the conditions of possibility for human living, crucially becoming a computational ecology which we inhabit. As such we need to take account of this new computational world and think about how we live today in a highly mediated code-based world. Computer code and software are not merely mechanisms, they represent an extremely rich form of media. They differ from previous instantiations of media forms in that they are highly processual. They can also have agency delegated to them, which they can then prescribe back onto other actors, but which also remain within the purview of humans to seek to understand. [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://classes.soe.ucsc.edu/cmps140/Winter10/turing1950.pdf Computing machinery and intelligence]
+;Martin Gardner : [http://www.ibiblio.org/lifepatterns/october1970.html The fantastic combinations of John Conway's new solitaire game "life"]
+;Alan M. Turing&nbsp;
+:[http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdfOn Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungs problem]
+<youtube>E3keLeMwfHY</youtube> ''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> ''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}} <br>''A short documentary about live coding practise by Louis McCallum and Davy Smith.''
+;Jeannette M. Wing&nbsp;
+:[http://www.youtube.com/C2Pq4N-iE4I Computational Thinking and Thinking About Computing']
+<youtube>C2Pq4N-iE4I</youtube> ''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.''
+== 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> ''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.''
+== Software Ecologies  ==
+<br>
+;Gilles Deleuze&nbsp;
+:[http://www.n5m.org/n5m2/media/texts/deleuze.htm Postscript on the Societies of Control]
+;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 : [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]
+;Gary Wolf&nbsp;
+:[http://www.youtube.com/OrAo8oBBFIo The quantified self]
+<youtube>OrAo8oBBFIo</youtube>
+''The notion of using computational devices in everyday life to record everything about you.''
+== [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Life_in_Code_and_Software/Attributions '''Attributions'''] ==

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