User:Andre Castro/WritingResearch/outline-nov2011

New Outline 23/11

Code performativity

What does it mean for code to performative?

• Code performativity
  • what it means
  • what impact it has on us, humans and reality
  • References: Katherine Hayles and Florian Cramer - main guideline

• Douglas Ruschkoff ideas - program or be programme
  • to gain control of reality we have be in control of the code

• Questions:
  • Why does code occupy such a relevant position that allow it to influence our lives so much? (answer: Hayles and Cramer)
  • (What makes software so prone to be written, transformed, distribuited ?
    • Imaterality, ... (?) )

Bibliography

Hayles, Katherine (1999). How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. London:The University of Chicago

Hayle, Katherine (2005). My mother was a computer: digital subjects and literary texts. London: The University of Chicago

Cramer, Florian (2005). Words Made Flesh: Code, Culture, Imagination. Piet Zwart Institute

Cramer, Florian (2008). Language. In: Fuller, M. Software Studies: a lexicon. London: The MIT Press. 168-174.

Rushkoff, D, (2010). Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age. New York: OR Books.