Category: Software Studies

  • Wendy Chun on Software Code

    In Programmed Visions: Software and Memory, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun develops her concept of “programmability” to argue that almost all social and economic institutions and procedures of life under capitalism are now shaped by software that pilots the unfolding of the future by intimately knowing data patterns and making extrapolations from the past.

  • Hayles on Writing and Software Code

    In Does Writing Have a Future?, Vilém Flusser lays out an intellectual project of connecting the future of software code with the history of writing. The code of the future will become more like the writing of the past – or rather, in the future there will be an as-yet-concealed hybrid of code and writing.

  • Paloque-Bergès and Sondheim on the Poetics of Code

    In her book Poétique des codes sur le réseau informatique: une investigation critique, Camille Paloque-Bergès examines the history of the writing practices of software code poetry. Her ultimate emphasis is on the concept of Codeworks which was originated by the theorist, artist, and poet Alan Sondheim. Codeworks is the literary writing of informatic code.

  • From Sociology to Media Studies to Software Studies, part one

    I disagree with Kittler’s statement that there is no software. In my view, just because the kernel or center of computing is rational and computational and digital-binary does not mean that all the other layers, languages, and interfaces of the system, and which surround the kernel, must obey or follow that logic.

  • Die Software der Zukunft, von Alan N. Shapiro

    Meine Vorgehensweise ist prinzipiell transdisziplinär. Transdisziplinarität ist nicht dasselbe wie Interdisziplinarität. Ich denke, dass Interdisziplinarität ineffizient ist, weil sie impliziert, dass es lediglich Dialoge und Kooperationen zwischen bereits existierenden Disziplinen bzw. akademischen Wissenschaftsbereichen bedarf, um Wissensentwicklung voranzutreiben.

  • Transdisciplinary Code and Objects, by Alan N. Shapiro

    In Impossible Exchange, Baudrillard separates his system of thought from ‘neo-Marxist critical theory’, which, on the whole, is also a subject-centered perspective (although one could definitely find an ‘object-centered perspective’ in the original texts of ‘Frankfurt School’ thinkers like T.W. Adorno).