View source for Vitrinekast'ed annotated reader/My Mother Was a Computer


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|+ Properties
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! Type 
| reading
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! Author 
| N. Katherine Hayles
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! Year 
| 2005
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! Date read 
| atm
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! Source 
| 
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! Tags 
| annotated_reader, 
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=== why? ===

Recommendation by lydia, not to push the feminist agenda but to push the feminist agenda. (The other recommendation was [[Technofeminism]]) - impact of code on everyday life.

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= (An)notations =

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=== Prologue ===

* Reference: [[Technologies of the gendered body]] (abt gender implications on information technology)
* Robo Sapiens

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== Intermediation ==

* Digital algorithms = language of nature
* What is [[computation]]? Turing: Starts with a set of elements and logical operations, expands to systems &amp; structures
* Wolfram: cellular automata: Simple rules [[KISS]] can generate complexity → Game of life → <span style="background: yellow">the computational universe</span> ''([[life = game]] → everything can be reduced to rulesets &amp; gamification''
** Is it just a metaphor that is becoming the reality or was it always in the (eco)system
* Network centric warfare
* <span style="background: yellow">Digital philosophy</span> :world is digital instead of analog
** And can therefore be understood as software ''
* <span style="background: yellow">Intermediation</span> the complex interactions between computer &amp; physical world (not sure about this definition!)
** Needs recursivity, complex feedback loops connect humans &amp; machines.

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