Life in Code and Software/

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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?

Luciana Parisi & Stamatia Portanova

Soft Thought (in architecture and choreography)

David M. Berry

Understanding Digital Humanities

Alan M. Turing

Computing machinery and intelligence

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

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.

Jeannette M. Wing

Computational Thinking

Stephan Ramsay

On Building

E. W. Dijkstra

On the cruelty of really teaching computing science

Decoding Code

David M. Berry

A Contribution Towards a Grammar of Code

Marino, Mark C.

Critical Code Studies

Lev Manovich

Software Takes Command

Ralph Langner

Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon

When first discovered in 2010, the Stuxnet computer worm posed a very strange puzzle. Beyond its unusually high level of sophistication loomed a more troubling mystery: what was its purpose? Ralph Langner and team helped crack the programming code that revealed this digital warhead's final target – and its origins in international politics and cyberwarfare. This is a fascinating look inside cyber-forensics and the processes of reading code to understand how it works and what it attacks.

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Stuxnet Under the Microscope

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

Robert Kitchin

The Programmable City

Mathew Fuller and S. Matos

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

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