Life in Code and Software/
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 are increasingly 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.(more...)