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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, ... (?) )

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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
+What does it mean for code to performative?
-*** the role of ambiguity - whereas it was seen before w/ suspicion - it became a tool of control/of production (M.Fuller, A.Goffrey)
-* Panopticism in web2.0 (M.Foucault + 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, ... (?) )