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Program Text, Programming Style, Programmer Labor: Some Further Comments on Comments
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 372–394.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of computer programming and computerized data processing as professions but ( Greenbaum 1979 excepted) little engagement with or attempt to advance the history of theories of labor. 18 See Croll 2015 : “Great literature is the creation of open minds. As programmers our focus can be very narrow...
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Cloud Control, or the Network as Medium
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 443–464.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Seb Franklin Cloud computing is an increasingly commonplace term today, used to describe the relocation of hardware resources, programs, and data from individual, local machines to a network accessible from a variety of platforms and devices. In unpicking the complex cultural logic that cloud...
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Hardt and Negri’s Information Empire: A Critical Response
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 101–118.
Published: 01 March 2005
... in the university and have been designed, as the dictates of cybernetic theory prescribe, to transfer information as quickly and efficiently as possible and with minimal interference or noise from any source. The culture of computer programming consequently developed with no attention at all to questions of who...
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From Models to Mirror Worlds
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 297–311.
Published: 01 November 2022
... to the mind and intention of the user.” This is no more evident in the field of computer programming: Wendy Chun ( 2004 : 38 – 39) argues that the act of simulating a world in the machine lends its creators a pleasurable sense of power and control, simply because the microworld (being internally consistent...
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On Designerization of Media Culture in the Age of Software
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 415–419.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of, especially, Alan Kay. Manovich does not refer to Casey Alt’s (2011) work on object-oriented programming and on the shift that occurred as computers became media machines, but he offers a similar argument, discussing the implementation of media as part of computers, as well as the shift from Turing-land...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 251–261.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of the computer age was the hydrogen bomb. Then came the “electronic battlefield” of Vietnam, which ended in a US defeat despite the computerization of everything from targeting to body counts ( Gray 1997 ). The Soviet military lost in Afghanistan even as it embraced the same principles as the US military, which...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (1): 86–94.
Published: 01 March 2013
... at Pratt, traumatizing world events intervened, and in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, a hard and decisive shift toward a boot-camp mentality occurred in the popular culture of 3D animation. Changing along with it was the demographic of students enrolled in computer graphics programs at Pratt and all...
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The Limits of Control
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 311–320.
Published: 01 July 2011
... sovereigns, nor itemized and hierarchical disciplinary institutions, but by atomized, free-floating control – primarily executed though computers and other self-organizing cybernetic systems – and an associated logic of social organization that is isomorphic with the mode now widely known as neoliberalism...
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The History of the Black Box: The Clash of a Thing and Its Concept
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 March 2011
... of computer science. In “black box testing” one group of specialists tests the software developments of another, without knowing the program code or being able to peek inside. This scenario is set up to counter what Polanyi calls implicit knowledge , which can seduce one into unknowingly making use of one's...
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Still Fighting “the Beast”: Guerrilla Television and the Limits of YouTube
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 97–119.
Published: 01 March 2012
.... Employing Yochai Benkler's concept of “layers,” Lessig examines the architecture of communication systems, distinguishing the “physical” layer (e.g., the computer and wires), the “logical” or “code” layer (e.g., the code that makes the hardware run), and the “content” layer (the material that gets sent...
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No More Models: Baudrillard's Critique of Communication
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 409–430.
Published: 01 November 2011
... represent by means of direct material representations; others by greater abstractions such as symbolic and logical means; or analogically based on a theory where there is no “real” system (inexistent or undiscovered) to represent at all. Models may be simulated by means of computer programs...
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Oppositional Politics and the Internet: A Critical/Reconstructive Approach
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 75–100.
Published: 01 March 2005
... of developing modes of communication and organization to oppose militarism, terrorism and the threats to democracy and social justice. From the early days of the Internet, “hackers” have creatively reconstructed the Internet and created programs and code that would facilitate sharing of research material...
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Smart Dust and Remote Sensing: The Political Subject in Autonomous Systems
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 100–110.
Published: 01 March 2015
... interrelated remote-sensing systems operative in the present have long genealogies in military research and development (R&D) and remain influential in military, civic, and corporate spheres. Smart dust, for example, constitutes the basis of polyscalar computer systems of remote sensing at microlevels...
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Beta Bunker : The Bunker Monolith and the Data Center at the Edge of Northern Geographies
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 70–91.
Published: 01 March 2020
... crucial for cooling the large volumes of hot air produced by data center computers. Run in partnership with the Ethereum Foundation, the company mined Alpareum crypto currency using cheap electricity provided by the Linthal Dam some kilometers away. (Cryptomining is a computerized algorithmic process...
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In the Wake of the Odyssey
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 413–427.
Published: 01 November 2012
... and Microsoft—conceptualize computers from the top down, from Bill Gates's business calculus down to the many single parts, we (men, programming minions, Stanford students) are only performing mimesis, even mimicry of that one god, who believes he can do as a creator without a woman and love. Let's...
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Excursions and Recursions: Kittler's Homeric Wake
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 429–442.
Published: 01 November 2012
.... Although it was only with the advent of computer technology that the informational structure of data, command, and address could be formalized, Kittler already finds this structure in earlier writing as well. The Odyssey is, in the largest sense, a program; in Kittler's view, it could be seen to have...
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The Environmentalitarian Situation: Reflections on the Becoming-Environmental of Thinking, Power, and Capital
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 153–173.
Published: 01 July 2018
... and of thinking. The process of cybernetization initiated around 1900—and the process of computerization since 1950 in particular—culminating in the becoming-environmental of computation, is to be understood as a time of environmentalization, that forces us into the new power/knowledge complex of Environmentality...
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The Digital Calculus of Racial Capitalism
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 473–479.
Published: 01 November 2022
...-0715-0 . The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism , by Jonathan Beller , Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2021 , 352 pages, $104.95 (hardcover) ISBN: 978-1-4780-1013-5 , $28.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-4780-1116-3 . Copyright © 2022 by Duke University...
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Virtual Dialectics and Technological Aesthetics
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 133–154.
Published: 01 July 2008
..., mathematics, and grammar that underpins the scripting of Linux code, and its dependence on the mass of computing and network engineering which supports its action and distribution, are experienced as collaborations not only between programmers, but also between programs, and between machines and programmers...
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Opening Up
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 203–211.
Published: 01 July 2013
..., with the thought that something radical really does seem to have happened with the “new technologies,” and more especially in the form of computer programming. Suddenly (Lyotard seems to think that this is sudden), the “given” is not just given (as nature, physis , say) but is produced synthetically as a result...
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