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- ArticleThe Computer as a Prosthetic Organ of PhilosophyRokeby, David (2003) , S. 1-7This article looks at issues of language and encoding from the perspective of computer programming. Particular attention is paid to the different relationships between code and encoder/decoder in computer coding and human language coding. Examples of the writer/artist's work and working experience are used to illuminate these differences and a role for computers as philosophical prostheses is proposed.
- ArticleMedia, Software, and Meta-mediaManovich, Lev (2003) , S. 1-2What is the relationship between the computer's contemporary identity as a simulator for all previous media, and its "essence" as a programmable machine? Is software art the only real "avant-garde" of new media, or is the more "impure" practice of remixing older media with software techniques equally innovative?