Alan N. Shapiro, Hypermodernism, Hyperreality, Posthumanism

Blog and project archive about media theory, science fiction theory, and creative coding

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Wendy Chun on Software Code

July 31st, 2024 in the categories: Software Studies

In her book Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (2011), 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.
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Hayles on Writing and Software Code

July 31st, 2024 in the categories: N. Katherine Hayles, Software Studies, Vilem Flusser

In Does Writing Have a Future?, the media theorist 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.
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Paloque-Bergès and Sondheim on the Poetics of Code

July 31st, 2024 in the categories: Software Poetry, Software Studies

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

March 8th, 2021 in the categories: Media Studies, Software Studies

The science part of the invention of computer science: algorithms and data can all be encoded into lengthy binary strings (i.e., stored as computable numbers). The cultural part: how one does this (i.e., the relationship between the code and the data) is a cultural decision.
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Die Software der Zukunft, von Alan N. Shapiro

July 16th, 2015 in the categories: Software Studies

Transdisziplinarität ist nicht dasselbe wie Interdisziplinarität. Interdisziplinarität ist ineffizient, weil sie impliziert, dass es lediglich Dialoge und Kooperationen zwischen bereits existierenden Disziplinen bedarf, um Wissensentwicklung voranzutreiben. Meine Überzeugung ist dagegen, dass das Wissen verschiedener Disziplinen zunächst zusammengebracht werden muss, um dann tiefergehend überdacht zu werden.
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Transdisciplinary Code and Objects, by Alan N. Shapiro

April 18th, 2015 in the categories: Software Studies

In their book Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life, Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge examine the explosive invasion of information about ourselves into our everyday lives, and the increasingly ubiquitous availability of this information to institutions and strangers through many standalone, networked, peripheral, handheld and mobile devices.