This document summarizes a presentation by Winnie Soon on the temporality of code interactions. It discusses how materialist approaches consider both the material and abstract aspects of programming, including code, hardware, software and networking protocols. It also presents some of Soon's projects that explore the temporality of digital interactions, such as through progress bars, data packets, and buffers. Finally, it discusses how the network structure of communication channels involves packetized data rather than a direct stream, and how this impacts our understanding of digital culture.

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LIVENESS:
THE TEMPORALITY OF CODE INTER-ACTIONS
17 NOV, 2015 @ AARHUS UNIVERSITY
Winnie SOON | Ph.D Fellow | www.siusoon.net
School of Communication and Culture
The Center for Participatory IT

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A few projects...

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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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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

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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 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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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.net
School of Communication and Culture
The Center for Participatory IT