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LIVENESS: THE TEMPORALITY OF CODE INTER-ACTIONS

17 NOV, 2015 @ AARHUS UNIVERSITY

Winnie SOON | Ph.D Fellow | www.siusoon.netSchool of Communication and Culture

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[materialist approaches] embrace both the material substrates andabstract of programming languages required for data storage,processing and exchange: code, hardware devices, operatingsystems, software, applications, platforms, interfaces, documents,file formats as well as networking protocols and infrastructure.

(Casemajor, 2015, p. 5)

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http://www.taobao.com/product/buy-likes-facebook.html

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ABOUT ME

www.siusoon.net/nonsense/ Nonsense (2015)

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The likes of Brother Cream Cat (2013)

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Hello zombies (2014)

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Hello zombies (2014)

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MICROTEMPORALITY

http://maoexperiencethroughinternet.siusoon.net/

How to get the Mao experience through Internet… (2014)

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THROBBER

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PROGRESS BAR

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DATA PACKET

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DATA PACKET/BUFFER

Principle organization of a playback buffer. Reprinted from Internetworking: Technological Foundations andApplications (p. 783), by Christoph Meinel & Harald Sack, 2013, Berlin: Springer. Copyright 2013 by Springer.

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The network structure of today’s communication channels and oftheir information stream is often understood as providing a directconnection between users and services or between twocommunication partners, even though there cannot be any directconnections on digital networks. The metaphor of the flow concealsthe fact that, technically, what is taking place is quite the opposite.There is no stream in digital networks.

(Sprenger, 2015, pp. 88-89, my emphasis)

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TEMPORAL THINGS

temporal things (WIP)http://siusoon.net/temporality/

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INVISIBLE INFRASTRUCTURE

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How does the temporality of code inter-actions reconfigure our understanding of digital culture?

How might we begin to discuss digital culture in a different way?

Winnie SOON | Ph.D Fellow | www.siusoon.netSchool of Communication and Culture

The Center for Participatory IT