Computational Culture, a Journal of Software Studies, Issue Three (2013)
Filed under journal | Tags: · algorithm, bureaucracy, code, computing, data, database, software, software studies
This issue of the journal treats “the database [as] one of the crucial social technologies of our time. As such, it is in urgent need of technically informed critical analysis, the kind of analysis that has tended to be demoted in favour, for instance, of the more semiotically amenable exploration of the more obviously cultural widgets and interfaces of the front end of Web 2.0 technologies. Yet the history of the development of the database casts an interesting light on otherwise frequently algorithm-centric eulogies to the development of computing.” (from the Editorial)
With contributions by Michael Castelle, Evelyn Ruppert, Anne Helmond, Taina Bucher; reviews by Thor Magnusson, Harry Halpin, Håkan Råberg, Alan F. Blackwell, and Lone Koefoed Hansen.
Editorial group: Matthew Fuller, Andrew Goffey, Olga Goriunova, Graham Harwood, Adrian Mackenzie
Published in November 2013
Open access
ISSN 2047-2390
Journal of Peer Production, No. 3: The Critical Power of Free Software (2013)
Filed under journal | Tags: · code, critique, floss, free software, hacking, software
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The issue explores the contemporary ability of Free Software to constitute a form of epistemological and material critique of contemporary societies. It does so with five research papers and three pieces in a “debate section”.
Contributions by Tyler Handley, Angela Daly, Douglas Haywood, Dan McQuillan, Morgan Currie/Christopher Kelty/Luis Felipe Rosado Murillo, Christopher Kelty, Katja Mayer and Judith Simon, David Hakken.
Edited by Maurizio Teli and Vincenzo D’Andrea
Published in July 2013
Open Access
ISSN 2213-5316
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Comment (0)Dick Higgins: Computers for the Arts (1970)
Filed under booklet | Tags: · art, chance, code, computer art, language, literature, poetry, programming, randomness
Includes Fortran program and printout of Hank and Mary, A Love Story, A Chorale by Higgins, realized by Higgins and James Tenney; and program and printout of Proposition No. 2 for Emmett Williams by Alison Knowles, realized by James Tenney.
Publisher Abyss Publications, Somerville/MA, June 1970
ISBN 091185603X, 9780911856033
17 pages
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