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CCS Bibliography

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Following are the beginnings of an extensive CCS Bibliography with examples of CCS practices and theoretical contemplations of code. Eventually this will be reorganized in a wiki or related structure.

Aarseth, Espen. Cybertext. Johns Hopkins UP, Baltimore, 1997.

Adam, Alison. “Lists” Software Studies.

Black, Maurice J. The Art of Code. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Pennsylvania, 2002.

Blas, Zach. “automating perverse possibilities: mutual mutation between queerness and technology in unmaterialized media works” 2007 - pdf

Cayley, John. “The Code is not the Text (unless it is the text)” Electronic Book Review. 10 September 2002. 1 April 2005.

Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong. Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006.

– “Stroking the Keys” Sexuality in the Age of Fiber Optics.

Cox, Geoff, Alex McLean, and Adrian Ward. “The Aesthetics of Generative Code” Generative Art 00 conference. Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 2001. 24 November 2006.

Cox, Geoff and Adrian Ward. “Perl” Software Studies.

Cramer, Florian. “Digital Code and Literary Text” Beehive. 4:3. 2001. 4 June 2005.

– Words Made flesh: Code, Culture, Imagination 6/2005, Media Design Research, Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2005. 23 November 2006.

Douglass, Jeremy. Personal Interview. 10 September 2006.

Evans, Aden. “Object-Oriented Ontology, or Programming’s Creative Fold,” Angelaki (2006, 11.1).

Fitzpatrick, Peter and Alan Hunt. “Critical Legal Studies: Introduction”Journal of Law and Society. (14:1) 1987. 1-3.

Fuller, Matthew, ed. Software Studies. Cambridge: MIT Press, forthcoming 2007.

– “Elegance” Software Studies.

Glazier, Loss Pequeño. “Code As Language” Leonardo Electronic Almanac. 14:05-06. September 2006. 2 November 2006.

– Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2001.

Graham, Peter S. “Building the Digital Research Library: Preservation and Access at the Heart of Scholarship” Folett Lecture Series. UKOLN. Leicester University, 19 March 1997. Accessed 10 March 2006.

Hayles, N. Katherine. My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts. Chicago: The U of Chicago P, 2005.

– “Print is Flat, Code is Deep: The Importance of Media Specific Analysis” Poetics Today. (25:1) 2004. 67-90.

– “Traumas of Code” Critical Inquiry. 33:1. Fall, 2006.

Hofstadter, Douglas R. and the Fluid Analogies Research Group. Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought. New York: Basic Books, 1995.

Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. “Extreme Inscription — Towards a Grammatology of the Hard Drive” TEXT Technology. 91:2. 2004. 16 October 2006.

Kittler, Friedrich. “Code (or, How You Can Write Something Differently)” Trans. Tom Morrison with Florian Cramer. Software Studies.

Knuth, Donald. “Literate Programming (1984)” Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, California, 1992.

Kress, Gunther and Robert Hodge. Language as Ideology. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979.

Kryssa, Joasia and Grzesiek Sedek. “Source Code” Software Studies.

Latour, Bruno. Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory. Oxford: Oxford UP: 2005.

MacKenzie, Adrian. “The Problem of Computer Code: Leviathan or Common Power?” Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University. 10 August 2006.

McCarthy, John. “The History of Lisp” 12 February 1979. 20 May 2005.

Manovich, Lev. “Import/Export” Software Studies.

– The Language of New Media. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT P, 2001.

– “Critical Code Studies 2” 4 Apr. 2005. WRT: Writer Response Theory. 4 April 2005.

Mateas, Michael and Nick Montfort. “A Box, Darkly: Obfuscation, Weird Languages, and Code Aesthetics” Digital Arts and Culture. Copenhagen, 2005.

Mateas, Michael. “Weird Languages” Software Studies.

Montfort, Nick. “Obfuscated Code” Software Studies.

Raley, Rita. “Code.surface || Code.depth” fDichtung Digital 2006.

– “Interferences: [Net.Writing] and the Practice of Codework” Electronic Book Review. 8 September 2002. 1 April 2005.

Robinson, Derek. “Variable” Software Studies.

Rotman, Brian. Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero. Stanford UP: Stanford, 1987.

Searle, John. “Minds, Brains, and Programs” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3. 417-424

Seiwald, Christopher. “Seven Pillars of Pretty Code” Perforce. 17 March 2005.

Sierra, Kathy. “Code Like a Girl” Creating Passionate Users. 29 March 2006. 15 October 2006.

Singletary, Mark. “Hello World” ACM ‘Hello World’ Project. Lousiana Tech ACM. Ed. Himanshu Chhetri, Leopolf Keiser, Chuka Okoye, Estabon Fiallos. last updated: 26 October 2005. 4 March 2005.

Sondheim, Alan. “Part 1: On Code and Codework” Plantext Tools. 2005. 6 March 2006.

Swartz, Paul. “Division III Proposal: Programs as Literature” 16 September 2006. 1 November 1 2006.

Thomas, Douglas. Personal Interview. 12 November 2005.

Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York: Touchstone, 1995.

Westfall, Ralph. “Technical Opinion: Hello, World considered harmful” Communications of the ACM. (44:10) 2001. 129-130