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Aesthetics

Most Programmers Are Stupid

“The only thing that everyone seems to agree upon is how stupid all the other programmers are.”

Crying Sculpture

Via bTang, I just stumbled across this crying sculpture (.pdf) which explores the theme of communication through tears. Crying is often considered solitary and individual, but here a significance…

Livecoding the musical apocalypse

Algorithms are thoughts, chainsaws are tools, and the triumph of the cyborg composer.

Contradictions, Conspiracies, and Cultural Logic

Frederic Jameson, author of Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism gave a lecture at Vic yesterday about Representations of Globalisation. Jameson's project can perhaps be summed…

Signs, Sigils, and Syntax

Why do we call programming languages “languages”? What is missing from the literary traditions of programming?