ALT A group of animated Sims take a selfie over a green background of HTML code. Beneath the sims, the pink text reads "The Cultural Politics of Code." Underneath, a white subtitle reads "a critical code studies reading group. Beneath that, is a red and white logo for Cambridge Digital Humanities.
critical legal coding with the incredible @siusoon - a WiP that intends to move from critique to reimagination, providing a poetic, yet practical, sketch of this vision. Could legal text be code poetry? More to come, but here's a teaser: siusoon.net/code-contract-fl….
Marvellous intro to reading the theorist as coder: inducing reflection on the meaning of "elementary" -- as in basic, as in rudimentary, as in "Elementary, my dear Watson" from movie lore.
http://criticalcodestudies/kittler.html
Thanks to @RiesThorsten for organizing session.
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Cindy Lin will present "Minimal Cloud: A Postcolonial (Low Carbon) Approach to Environmental Data Infrastructure and Computing"
This looks great for anyone interested in #criticalcodestudies and #digitalinfrastructure:
Next week is Cindy Lin's Low Carbon Methods & Media Lecture. 📡🌱
She'll discuss small-scale alternatives to cloud computing located in the imperatives and constraints of Global South environmental justice projects.
More info free registration at annepasek.com/low-carbon-met…
Thanks @markcmarino, with a great intro to the book #criticalcodestudies (as a field but also as a methodology to do #code analysis). Some nice discussion too.
This January we're thrilled to offer Internet Geographies, a one credit elective taught by @lifewinning. In this course students will use Javascript-based tools to explore the breadth and physical nature of the internet.
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We need #criticalcodestudies to link culture politics technology.
Thanks @Stand_with_HK to bring this up with a brief analysis and some tips to further investigate this.
Video surveillance software tailored for detecting Uyghurs.
Dahua Technology is a state-owned company which sells video surveillance products and services. They have played a role in the mass surveillance of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
Their Java SDK on GitHub: raw.githubusercontent.com/ga…
Here’s to a liberal arts education! In Sound and Technology taught by Clara Latham, students will be posed and seek to answer the question: “What is the relationship between technology and musical aesthetics?”
#codeatlang#nerdylang#criticalcodestudies@eugenelang
Looking ahead at this week, the Code as a Liberal Art program is hosting a book talk on André Brock’s DISTRIBUTED BLACKNESS: AFRICAN AMERICAN CYBERCULTURES on Wednesday, October 14 @ 7 EDT via Zoom. Register at tinyurl.com/cla-brock#codeatlang#criticalcodestudies@eugenelang
Here’s a highlight of one of the Spring course offerings for the Code as a Liberal Art program, the new Digital Media Off-the-Grid class taught by @rorys.
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Digital Media Off-the-Grid
Rory Solomon
LCST 2454 | CRN 8800 | 4 Credits
10:00-11:40 | TR | Spring 2021
Off-the-grid usually connotes freedom, autonomy, and withdrawal from infrastructural dependency and the structures governing modern life. But the status of being off-the-grid is experienced differently depending on one’s subject position. In this class we will examine how the digital mediates off-the-grid narratives, and how off-the-grid infrastructures are often seen as undergirding fantasies of digital technology. Coursework will include hands-on work exploring how the digital mediates off-the-grid phenomena: communication experiments in wireless mesh networking and critical making with non-screen interfaces and solar power.