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Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies</i> by Winnie Soon
and Geoff Cox.</span><span
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explores
the technical as well as cultural imaginaries of programming
from its insides.
It follows the principle that the growing importance of software
requires a new
kind of cultural thinking — and curriculum — that can account
for, and with
which to better understand the politics and aesthetics of
algorithmic
procedures, data processing and abstraction. It takes a
particular interest in
power relations that are relatively under-acknowledged in
technical subjects,
concerning class and capitalism, gender and sexuality, as well
as race and the
legacies of colonialism. This is not only related to the
politics of
representation but also nonrepresentation: how power
differentials are implicit
in code in terms of binary logic, hierarchies, naming of the
attributes, and
how particular worldviews are reinforced and perpetuated through
computation.
Using p5.js, it introduces and demonstrates the reflexive
practice of aesthetic
programming, engaging with learning to program as a way to
understand and
question existing technological objects and paradigms, and to
explore the
potential for reprogramming wider eco-socio-technical systems.
The book itself
follows this approach, and is offered as a computational object
open to
modification and reversioning. </span><span
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://aesthetic-programming.net">http://aesthetic-programming.net</a> </span><span
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">‘Instructive,
imaginative and accessible, this is an introduction to
programming like no
other. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Aesthetic
Programming</i> opens up
the thinking in software in a vivid, critical and creative
manner; it is a book
full of procedural pleasures and witty algorithms that also
poses a remarkable
set of questions about contemporary digital life.’ </span><span
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Matthew
Fuller, Professor of Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of
London</span><span
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">‘Skilfully
moving across the instructional, the pedagogic, and the
critical, Aesthetic
Programming makes an expansive contribution to computational
thinking. Engaging
with programming from a practice-based approach, this
illuminating text
demonstrates how critical aesthetics can transform programming.
Recipe book,
code library, poetic manual, convivial instructional, and primer
to computing
imaginaries all assemble into this compelling and indispensable
addition to
software studies.’ </span><span
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Media, Culture and
Environment, University of Cambridge </span><span
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Cox
likes not to think of himself as an old white man from a
parochial island but
is clearly in denial. Thankfully other aspects of his identity
are more
ambiguous and fluid. Research interests lie broadly across the
fields of
software studies, contemporary art practice, cultural theory,
and image
politics, reflected in his academic position as Associate
Professor and
co-Director of the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image
at London South
Bank University, UK, and Adjunct Associate Professor, Aarhus
University, DK. </span><span
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Soon was born and raised in Hong Kong, increasingly aware of,
and confronting,
identity politics regarding its colonial legacy and postcolonial
authoritarianism. As an artist-coder-researcher, she/they is
interested in
queering the intersections of technical and artistic practices
as a feminist
praxis, with works appearing in museums, galleries, festivals,
distributed
networks, papers and books. Researching in the areas of software
studies and
computational practices, she/they is currently Associate
Professor at Aarhus
University, Denmark.</span><span
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Coventry University:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures">http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.garyhall.info">http://www.garyhall.info</a>
Latest:
Book: A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain:
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Chapter: ‘Postdigital Politics’, in Cornelia Sollfrank, Shuhsa Niederberger and Felix Stalder, eds, Aesthetics of the Commons:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.diaphanes.com/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419">https://www.diaphanes.com/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419</a>
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