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LIVENESS:
THE TEMPORALITY OF CODE INTER-ACTIONS
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School of Communication and Culture
The Center for Participatory IT
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[materialist approaches] embrace both the material substrates and
abstract of programming languages required for data storage,
processing and exchange: code, hardware devices, operating
systems, software, applications, platforms, interfaces, documents,
file formats as well as networking protocols and infrastructure.
(Casemajor, 2015, p. 5)
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DATA PACKET/BUFFER
Principle organization of a playback buffer. Reprinted from Internetworking: Technological Foundations and
Applications (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 of
their information stream is often understood as providing a direct
connection between users and services or between two
communication partners, even though there cannot be any direct
connections on digital networks. The metaphor of the flow conceals
the 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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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.net
School of Communication and Culture
The Center for Participatory IT