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Digital Theory / New Media Studies / Software Studies on Literature Reading Lists.
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Digital Theory / New Media Studies / Software Studies on Literature Reading Lists
In a sense, all intellectual work is now ‘software study’, in that software provides its media and its context, but there are very few places where the specific nature, the materiality, of software is studied except as a matter of engineering. As software becomes a putatively mature part of societal formations […] it gathers and makes palpable a whole range of associations, interpretative frameworks, qualitative dimensions of relationality, aesthetic and political bottlenecks and amplifiers and logico-cultural dimensions and aporias. Matthew Fuller (2006) <http://web.archive.org/web/20100327185154/http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/Seminars2/softstudworkshop>
‘Human beings and human societies are constituted by webs of cultural and material connections […] The legal, technical, and institutional conditions that shape flows of information to, from, and about us are of the utmost importance […] because they shape the sort of subjectivity that we can attain […] and the opportunities for creation of political and ethical meaning that we can claim to offer’ (5). Julie E. Cohen (2012), Configuring the Networked Self
Side: Sheila Heti, Ryan Kamstra, SholemKrishtalka, Margaux Williamson [all of whom feature in How Should a Person Be? “as themselves”] Below: Sheila Heti