Category: Humanities Informatics
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Inscribe Philosophy into the Heart of Computer Science
There are many individuals in the technology and cyberculture communities who are not just “engineers” or techie programmers. They are already working to bring software together with art and sociology. These people are our friends and allies. However, in their projects, they are working two or three levels removed from the core of computer science.
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Society of the Instance: Artificial Intelligence, Object- Orientation, and Semiotics, by Alan N. Shapiro
The entire virtual life of societies in which postcapitalist conditions of seduction prevail presents itself as an immense accumulation of software instances. Everything that was venerated or rejected in the mirror stage by the ideologically constituted ego as system of commodities, panoply of consumer objects, or spectacle of images has dissolved into a virtual reality.
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The Revolution will not be Televised, it will be led by Radical Software
Laura Mitchell interviews Alan N. Shapiro Do you play video games? A little, not so much. There’s a blackjack machine that I play a lot, in an offtrack betting parlor where a bunch of semi-addicted male gamblers hang out. I never lose more than 5 Euros at a time, and sometimes I win.