Catherine GriffithsThe Question Concerning TechnologyHeidegger’s The Question Concerning Technology, published in 1953, can provide a context to the field of critical computation. Critical…Aug 2, 20181Aug 2, 20181
Catherine GriffithsEthical ProgramsIn Ethical Programs: Hospitality and the Rhetorics of Software, James J. Brown Jr addresses the problem of how to deal with ethical…Sep 5, 20171Sep 5, 20171
Catherine GriffithsVisualizing Algorithms Precedents, Part 1What does it mean to visualizing an algorithm? An algorithm can mean various things: a piece of code written in a particular programming…Aug 3, 2017Aug 3, 2017
Catherine GriffithsAesthetic ComputingIn the introduction to the book, Paul Fishwick writes that aesthetic computing is the application of aesthetics to the field of computing…Jul 22, 2017Jul 22, 2017
Catherine GriffithsSpeaking CodeIn Speaking Code: Coding as Aesthetic and Political Expression, Geoff Cox and Alex McLean develop a rhetoric of code, through a humanistic…Jul 15, 2017Jul 15, 2017
Catherine GriffithsAn Algorithmic Criticism?In Stephen Ramsay’s 2011 book Reading Machines: Toward An Algorithmic Criticism, he argues for the use of computational textual analysis…Jul 13, 20171Jul 13, 20171
Catherine GriffithsThe algorithmic turn: what do crowd-sourcing, photogrammetry, geo-tagging, and mixed reality mean…In The algorithmic turn: photosynth, augmented reality and the changing implications of the image, published by William Uricchio in 2011 in…Jul 12, 2017Jul 12, 2017
Catherine Griffiths10 PRINT, tactics for critical code studies10 PRINT is an important book in that it establishes a clear precedent for critical code studies. The title is an abbreviation of a single…Jul 6, 2017Jul 6, 2017
Catherine GriffithsShape GrammarsShape Grammars were first invented by George Stiny and James Gips in their 1972 article Shape Grammars and the Generative Specification of…Jun 29, 2017Jun 29, 2017
Catherine GriffithsReflexivity in C20th Film and LiteratureIn Reflexivity in Film and Literature: From Don Quixote to Jean-Luc Godard, first published in 1985, Robert Stam explores specific tactics…Jun 27, 2017Jun 27, 2017