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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.

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-In my essay I would like to discuss control in the age of information
+==New Outline 23/11==
-* Performativity of code -> changes in computer -> changes in our lives (K.Hayles)
+Code performativity
-* Code as a mediator between humans ans machines (K.Hayles)
-* Our blind belief in code
-	* the role of ambiguity - whereas it was seen before w/ suspicion - it became a tool of control/of production (M.Fuller, A.Goffrey)
+What does it mean for code to performative?
-Change from hard control (M.Foucault)  to soft control mechanisms (M.Poster)
+* 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.