http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress a resource for reading code Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:13:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en To wrap-up Stephen Ramsay's video, I've put together one of my own. http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/2010/03/09/ccswg-week-5-wrap-up/ //Week 4 Summary //Here's what CCSWG members should know about Weeks 4 and 5 #include<iostream.h> int future (week5, thread editor) { cout<<"In Week 5, Stephen Ramsay will be presenting his live commentary on live coding.  We've debated code as performative, now we examine coding as performance."; //We're still looking for one more thread editor. Please contact ... http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/2010/03/05/week4wrapupcpp/ Coming up: Week 4, Wendy Chun, Brown University Looking forward to Week 4, CCS itself will be under inspection with Wendy Chun’s reading on the first chapter of her forthcoming book about software. Through her critical lens, we'll examine the ontology of computers "by exploiting the unexpected possibilities of source code ... http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/2010/03/04/ccswg-week-3-in-review/ Week 2 ushered in a host of new discussion topics and code critiques. Here’s a recap on recent activity, and a look at what’s to come: Week 3: Guest Speaker, Dennis Jerz, Seton Hill Exciting news! Jeff Young, senior writer for Wired Campus, featured Critical Code Studies in his most recent article “Scholars ... http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/2010/03/01/ccs-working-group-week-2-wrap-up/ Week 1 has been such a success! As we approach the start of Week 2, we look back on what has happened so far. Week 2: Guest Speaker, Jeremy Douglass, UCSD A quick look at the working group's statistics for the week Members: 97 Code critiques: 15 Bibliographic entries: 80+ entries Replies to the Week ... http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/2010/02/06/week-1-critical-code-studies-working-group/ Announcing the Critical Code Studies Working Group February 1-March 12, 2010 Call for participants in an online working group in Critical Code Studies. Faculty Participants and Guest Speakers include: David M. Berry, Swansea University Benjamin Bratton, UC San Diego Mez Breeze, netwurker, augmentology.com Wendy Chun, Brown University Jeremy Douglass, UC San Diego Aden Evans, Dartmouth Susan Garfinkel, UMD and ... http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/2010/01/22/critical-code-studies-working-group-21-31210/ In addition to the CCS blog, about which you may be aware, there are several means of pursuing Critical Code Studies information online. 1) Twitter Hashtag. For quick, up-to-the-minute CCS news, follow the #critcode hashtag, that we will soon be adding to the blog itself. 2) Zotero group To build a critical code studies ... http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/2009/11/12/ccs-channels/ CCS scholars should send their abstracts and proposals to the Electronic Literature Organizations 2010 conference at brown. ELO AI, June 3-6, 2010 at Brown, will offer an opportunity for readings of software art and code object of the literary kind. While CCS can speak to any encoded ... http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/2009/11/09/on-literary-encoded-object-cfp-elo-ai-63-6610/ Critical Code Studies, the blogging community, celebrates 2 years of existence. The blog was born of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts conference in Maine (SLSA 07). A confluence of scholars and artists at that conference, which was on the theme of "Code," engaged ... http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/2009/11/07/critical-code-studies-new-memebers/ [by Stephen Ramsay] It would be hard to imagine the computer revolution without acronyms.  Back in the day, the mere fact that you manufactured computers meant that you could no longer be a corporation that made "digital equipment" -- still less an international purveyor of "business machines."  Since then, we've been ... http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/2009/10/26/tim-toady-bicarbonate/