Critical Code Studies.

Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Hacknowledgments -- 1: Introduction -- Code Heard 'round the World -- A Job Interview -- Protesting in Code -- The Origins of Critical Code Studies -- E-Voting Software -- What Does It Mean to Interpret Code? -- Chapter Overviews -- 2: Critical Code Studies: A Manifesto -- Hello, World -- What Can Be Interpreted? -- The Code as Means, Not Ends -- Code Is Not Poetry (or at Least, Most of It Isn't) -- Code Is More than a Static Text -- // Cautionary Comments -- The Moment Is Critical -- 3: The Transborder Immigrant Tool -- Origins of a Tool -- Poems Becoming Code -- Code Becoming Poetry -- Attribution and Affiliation in Code -- The Lore of the Comments -- Walking through the Code -- Of Witching Sticks and GPS -- Poetry in Potential -- 4: Climategate -- Extreme Climate -- Recontextualizing Code -- Adjusting the Numbers -- Fudge Factors -- Hidden in Plain Sight -- Even the Programming Language Was Critiqued -- In the End -- 5: FLOW-MATIC -- Interoperating Systems -- FLOW-MATIC -- English-Like -- Go to versus Jump To -- COBOL's Global Reach -- The Drive for Natural Languages -- Natural Language in the Postcolonial Age -- Hopper's Intervention -- 6: Kittler's Code -- There Is No Software, Except ... -- // One Brief Comment on Authorship -- The Man behind the Code -- Is There Really No Software? -- Kittler and Computer Graphics -- The Raytracer of Heaven and Hell -- Encoded Allusions -- Assembling and Understanding of the Machine -- A Kittlerian Method -- Conclusion -- 7: Generative Code -- Code and Poetry -- Generous Poetry Generators -- Taroko Gorge -- The Descendants -- Gorge by JR Carpenter -- Argot, Ogre Ok! -- 8: Futures of Critical Code Studies -- 1. Contributing to Humanities Curricula -- 2. Informing Computer Science Curricula -- 3. Supporting Research in the Digital Humanities.

4. Inspiring New Work in Code -- How to Interpret Code -- Final Words -- Notes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Critical Code Studies, a Manifesto -- 3 The Transborder Immigrant Tool -- 4 Climategate -- 5 FLOW-MATIC -- 6 Kittler's Code -- 7 Generative Code -- 8 Futures of Critical Code Studies -- Works Cited -- Index.

An argument that we must read code for more than what it does--we must consider what it means.

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