User:Kim/reading/Alessandro Ludovico: Tactical Publishing

Using senses, Software and Archives in the twenty-first century, MIT Press 2023

The Realm of the Senses

close inspection of senses involved in physical and digital publications. Such as sight, hearing and smell. Interesting observations but very flat and fixed understanding of code based technologies.

• Tactility as primary reading interface
• The Material space of information

Nonhuman Writing

The role that software occupies in contemporary writing practice has gradually shifted from being infrastructural to being authorial.

• Oulipo: Writing as Process (potencial literature/ potenciality)

Software and language are intrinsially related since software may process language and is constructed in language. (Florian Cramer)

• Authorial: This chapter might have been written by a machine

Writing (even for print) is increasingly based digitally. These are based on software that set with their interfaces and functions set the boundaries of writing. We adapt to them as standards.

• Writing with the Machine: Machine as supportive System

If not writing with the machine, we delegate out responsibility not to the machine but the ones who programmed it.

Machines that make us think rather than thinking machines

amplify