Readings

A list of (mostly academic) books, articles I've read/am reading.

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    A Box, Darkly: Obfuscation, Weird Languages, and Code Aesthetics

    Mateas, Michael; Montfort, Nick ( 2005)


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    A Cultural Diffusion Model for the Rise and Fall of Programming Languages

    Valverde; Sole ( 2015)


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    A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century"

    Haraway, Donna J. ( 1991)


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    A history of modern computing

    Ceruzzi, Paul E. ( 2003)


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    A Matter of Interpretation: A review of 'Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (JavaScript Edition)'

    Sack, Warren ( 2023)


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    Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies

    Soon, Winnie; Cox, Geoff ( 2020)


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    After the Digital Humanities, or, a Postscript


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    Algorithmic bias: Senses, sources, solutions

    Fazelpour, Sina; Danks, David ( 2021)


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    Art-based action research in the development work of arts and art education


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    Artist-Programmers and Programming Languages for the Arts


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    Beautiful code


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    Behind the blip: essays on the culture of software

    Fuller, Matthew ( 2003)


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    Can the Subaltern Speak?

    Spivak, Gayatri ( 1988)


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    CODE - The Language of Our Time


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    CODE IS SPEECH: Legal Tinkering, Expertise, and Protest among Free and Open Source Software Developers

    Coleman, Gabriella ( 2009)


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    Coding democracy: how hackers are disrupting power, surveillance, and authoritarianism

    Webb, Maureen; Doctorow, Cory ( 2020)


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    Coding literacy: how computer programming is changing writing

    Vee, Annette ( 2017)


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    Computational Science Studies | A Tool-Based Methodology for Studying Code

    Schüttler, Lisa; Kasprowicz, Dawid; Gramelsberger, G ( 2019)


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    Computer Programming as an Art

    Knuth, Donald E ( 1974)


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    Computer Programming for Everybody


  22. 22

    Computer Science Tripos, Part 1B


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    Concepts, Notations, Software, Art


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    Concurrency

    Scott, Michael L. ( 2009)


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    CQDE: a feminist manifestx of code-ing

    Acierto, Alejandro T.; Duffy, KT ( 2020)


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    Critical code studies

    Marino, Mark C. ( 2020)


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    Currents Spring 2002: Towards a Hermeneutic Understanding of Programming Languages

    Spinuzzi, Clay ( 2002)


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    Cutting code: software and sociality

    Mackenzie, Adrian ( 2006)


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    Deciphering Code: How Newsroom Developers Communicate Journalistic Labor

    Boyles, Jan Lauren ( 2020)


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    Digital mosaics: the aesthetics of cyberspace

    Holtzman, Steven R. ( 1997)


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    Digital poetics: the making of E-poetries

    Glazier, Loss Pequeño ( 2002)


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    DO SOCIOLINGUISTIC VARIATIONS EXIST IN PROGRAMMING?


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    E.W.Dijkstra Archive: On the foolishness of "natural language programming". (EWD 667)


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    Embodying Values in Technology: Theory and Practice

    Flanagan, Mary; Howe, Daniel C.; Nissenbaum, Helen ( 2008)


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    Esoteric Programming Languages


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    FCJ-135 Feral Computing: From Ubiquitous Calculation to Wild Interactions


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    Fix my code

    Sollfrank, C.; Soon, W. ( 2021)


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    Grammar: The language of languages (BNF, EBNF, ABNF and more)


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    Hello Worlds

    Kirschenbaum, Matthew ( 2009)


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    How we think: digital media and contemporary technogenesis

    Hayles, N. Katherine ( 2012)


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    Human heart is a Turing machine, research on XBox 360 shows. Wait, what?


  42. 42

    If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript

    Croll, Angus ( 2015)


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    Interferences: [Net.Writing] and the Practice of Codework › electronic book review

    Riley, Rita ( 2012)


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    Introduction to automata theory, languages, and computation, 2nd edition

    Hopcroft, John E.; Motwani, Rajeev; Ullman, Jeffrey D. ( 2001)


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    Introduction to Esoteric Language Malbolge


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    Investigative Aesthetics: conflicts and commons in the politics of truth

    Fuller, Matthew; Weizman, Eyal ( 2021)


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    Keywords: a vocabulary of culture and society

    Williams, Raymond ( 1985)


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    Language Wants To Be Overlooked: On Software and Ideology

    Galloway, Alexander R. ( 2006)


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    Language without code: intentionally unusable, uncomputable, or conceptual programming languages

    Temkin, Daniel ( 2017)


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    Language, Life, Code

    R Galloway, Alexander; Thacker, Eugene ( 2006)


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    Letters to the editor: go to statement considered harmful

    Dijkstra, Edsger W. ( 1968)


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    Light pattern: writing code with photographs

    Temkin, Daniel ( 2015)


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    Literacy: reading the word & the world

    Freire, Paulo; Macedo, Donaldo P. ( 1987)


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    Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete

    Churchill, Alex; Biderman, Stella; Herrick, Austin ( 2019)


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    Manifesto cyborg: donne, tecnologie e biopolitiche del corpo

    Haraway, Donna J.; Braidotti, Rosi ( 2018)


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    My mother was a computer: digital subjects and literary texts

    Hayles, N. Katherine ( 2005)


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    New Media Poetry and Poetics From Concrete to Codework: Praxis in Networked and Programmable Media

    Peterson, Tim ( 2006)


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    No Code: Null Programs

    Montfort, Nick ( 2013)


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    On "Sourcery," or Code as Fetish

    Wendy Hui Kyong Chun ( 2008)


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    On Software, or the Persistence of Visual Knowledge

    Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong ( 2005)


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    Plain text: the poetics of computation

    Tenen, Dennis ( 2017)


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    Programming as theory building

    Naur, Peter ( 1985)


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    Protocol: how control exists after decentralization

    Galloway, Alexander R. ( 2006)


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    Ranking programming languages by energy efficiency

    Pereira, Rui; Couto, Marco; Ribeiro, Francisco; Rua, Rui; Cunha, Jácome; Fernandes, João Paulo; Saraiva, João ( 2021)


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    Remodeling Rationality: An Inquiry into Unorthodox Modes of Logic and Computation


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    Rhetorical code studies: discovering arguments in and around code

    Brock, Kevin ( 2019)


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    Rhetorical Code Studies: Discovering Arguments in and around Code

    Brock, Kevin ( 2019)


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    Rhetorical Genres in Code

    Brock, Kevin; Mehlenbacher, Ashley Rose ( 2018)


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    Scripting: Deep Histories of Computing, Graphics, and Media

    Mingyi, Yu ( 2023)


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    Signifying nothing: the semiotics of zero

    Rotman, Brian ( 1996)


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    Sociolinguistics and programming

    Naz, Fariha; Rice, Jacqueline E. ( 2015)


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    Softness: interrogability; general intellect; art methodologies in software

    Fuller, Matthew ( 2006)


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    Software studies: a lexicon


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    Software takes command: extending the language of new media

    Manovich, Lev ( 2013)


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    Software theory: a cultural and philosophical study

    Frabetti, Federica ( 2015)


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    Speaking code: coding as aesthetic and political expression

    Cox, Geoff; McLean, Alex ( 2013)


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    Strange code: 14 esoteric programming languages to make you think

    Kneusel, Ronald T. ( 2022)


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    The Aesthetics of Generative Code


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    The aesthetics of multicoding esolangs

    Temkin, Daniel J ( 2020)


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    The Anti-Language of New Media

    Galloway, Alexander R. ( 2010)


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    The Art of Code by Maurice J. Black


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    The Code is not the Text (Unless It Is the Text) › electronic book review

    Cayley, John ( 2012)


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    The Coming Age of Calm Technology

    Weiser, Mark; Brown, John Seely ( 1997)


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    The craft of research

    Booth, Wayne C.; Colomb, Gregory G.; Williams, Joseph M. ( 2008)


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    The creative act: a way of being

    Rubin, Rick ( 2023)


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    The Digital Construction of Technology: Rethinking the History of Computers in Society

    Ensmenger, Nathan ( 2012)


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    The Dossier


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    The ENIAC, the verb "to program" and the emergence of digital computers

    Grier, D.A. ( 1996)


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    The evolution of the computers and writing conference

    Gerrard, Lisa ( 1995)


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    The humble programmer

    Dijkstra, Edsger W ( 1972)


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    The Internet does not exist


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    The language of new media

    Manovich, Lev ( 2001)


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    The Less Humble Programmer


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    The Materialization of Code | Blay


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    The philosophy of software: code and mediation in the digital age

    Berry, David M. ( 2011)


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    The Politics of Code: An Exploration of Technological Activism – Berkeley Political Review


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    The Politics of Early Programming Languages

    Nofre, David ( 2021)


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    The politics of the code

    Haefner, Joel ( 1999)


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    The Routledge companion to media studies and digital humanities


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    The Style of Sources: Remarks on the Theory and History of Programming Languages

    Hagen, Wolfgang ( 2006)


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    The Trivial Program “yes”


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    The two revolutions: a history of the transgender internet

    Dame-Griff, Avery ( 2023)


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    The Āmuktamālyada of Kṛṣṇadevarāya Language, Power & Devotion in Sixteenth Century South India


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    Theorising while() Practising: A Review of Aesthetic Programming

    Young, David ( 2021)


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    There is no Software


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    Thinking critically about and researching algorithms

    Kitchin, Rob ( 2018)


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    Turing Complete User


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    Twine / An open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories


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    Understanding Computer Programming as a Literacy

    Vee, Annette ( 2013)


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    Unpacking tool criticism as practice, in practice

    van Es, Karin; Es, Karin van ( 2023)


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    Unusable for Programming


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    When Computers Were Women

    Light, Jennifer S. ( 1999)


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    When Technology Became Language: The Origins of the Linguistic Conception of Computer Programming, 1950–1960

    Nofre, David; Priestley, Mark; Alberts, Gerard ( 2014)


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    Where Computer Science and Cultural Studies Collide

    Kirschenbaum, Matthew ( 2009)


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    Whoever said computers would be intelligent?

    Self, John ( 2005)