User:Andre Castro/WritingResearch/outline-nov2011

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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, ... (?) )