Speaking Code Coding As Aesthetic and Political Expression

Name: Speaking Code Coding As Aesthetic and Political Expression
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ISBN: 9780262018364

ISBN-10: 0262018365

ISBN-13: 9780262018364

Edition: 2012

Authors: Geoff Cox, Alex McLean, Franco Berardi, Matthew Fuller, Lev Manovich

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Speaking Code begins by invoking the "Hello World" convention used by programmers when learning a new language, helping to establish the interplay of text and code that runs through the book. Interweaving the voice of critical writing from the humanities with the tradition of computing and software development, in Speaking Code Geoff Cox formulates an argument that aims to undermine the distinctions between criticism and practice and to emphasize the aesthetic and political implications of software studies. Not reducible to its functional aspects, program code mirrors the instability inherent in the relationship of speech to language; it is only interpretable in the context of its…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 11/9/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 168
Size: 7.31" wide x 9.31" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Geoff Cox is Associate Professor in the Department of Aesthetics and Communications at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Alex McLean is a Research Fellow at ICSRiM (the Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Research in Music) at the University of Leeds, a live coder, and software artist.

Franco Berardi, aka "Bifo," founder of the famous "Radio Alice" in Bologna and an important figure of the Italian Autonomia Movement, is a writer, media theorist, and media activist. He currently teaches Social History of the Media at the Accademia di Brera, Milan.



Series Foreword


Foreword: Debt, Exactness, Excess



Preface



Double Coding


Coding subject


Coding expression


Introduction



Vocable Code (co-written with Alex McLean)


Coding language


Grammars-Notation-Indeterminism Coding speech


Machines-Intelligence-Embodiment Code act


Speech act-Vocable Synthesis-Excess



Code Working


Code in-itself


Emergence-Computation-Voice Coding work


Valorization-Property-Self-organization Code action


Virtuosity-Performativity-Recomposition



Coding Publics


Public domain


Purification-Ownership-Freedoms Public networking


Inequities-Control-Exits


Public for-itself


Recombination-Reciprocity-Autonomy



Code for-Itself


Execution


Negation


Coda


Notes


References


Index