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Sat · Sep 2 post · 4 min ‘Ecology-as-a-Flow’ As an Excuse for Low Pay and No Fun At Work In the new flow between the human and machinic in the Generative AI pedagogy, is the low pay and poor working conditions of the anonymous annotators justifiable in the face of the greater good that AI Thu · Aug 3 post · 5 min The dinosaurs in the tar pit, or why the software is so hard to produce Provides a summary of Fred Brooks' foundational book on software engineering, to pinpoint what are the methodological difficulties that the software systems encountered in the past. Tue · Aug 1 post · 5 min Patterns of Mediation, or The Work of Art in the Age of Computational Distribution Computational work of art relates to its audience not merely as an object, but as a channel of communication based on the automatically produced patterns of mediation within communities. Wed · Jul 19 post · 4 min Roads, Bridges and Clouds The creation of the first railroads was justified by a need to move people and supplies, yet their main purpose has often been to enable the flow of finance. Are cloud infrastructures any different? Tue · Jul 11 post · 5 min Software as queer boundary-making Where to draw a boundary in software between the product and process, the production and distribution, or human and non-human? Queer software performativity may give us new answers. Thu · Jul 6 post · 4 min The Nuts and Bolts of Creativity: How to Bring ‘Art’ Back into AI? Is there ‘art’ in artificial intelligence? the mathematical poetry, the cyborgs, and the Solaris Ocean help to understand what creativity means in the context of the automatic production of culture. Sat · Sep 24 post · 4 min Artist as a Formal System Rejecting the work of art as an object oriented towards its distribution, and proposing it instead as a discrete pattern. Mon · Aug 8 post · 3 min Knowledge society Promo for the Ritsumeikan University new campus by @jamespond628 Knowledge society is a society where “knowledge has become a productive force that increasingly replaces capital, labour and natural Mon · Aug 1 post · 3 min Post-ANT and its consequences The paper discusses the contested state of actor-network theory (ANT) through the engagement of its four prominent figures, Annemarie Mol, Marilyn Strathern, John Law and Bruno Latour. The Tue · Jul 26 post · 2 min Net vs NFT art A few glimpses into the history of Net art brings some interesting parallels to what NFT art has to offer, and to its the potential future trajectories. Interestingly, Wed · Jul 20 post · 2 min The capitalist socius Capitalism is presented as initially a philosophical structure, in that it works by defining the categories and the material for categorisation, and then using them as the schemas Mon · Sep 28 post · 4 min When Women Were Software A documentary titled The Computers: The Remarkable Story of the ENIAC Programmers, tells a story of women who developed America’s first electronic computer to automate ballistic computations Sun · Sep 13 post · 4 min How to escape the interview horror: talking good old expertise and teamwork As we saw in one of the previous blog posts, it is as hard for the employer to find a developer, as it is for a developer to Sun · Sep 6 post · 3 min Will Open Source Actually Beat Silicon Valley Start-Ups? Essentially, there are two ways of producing software. One is the ”Silicon Valley” way, where you start up as an entrepreneur in your garage, reach out to venture Sat · Aug 29 post · 4 min How to get your first software developer job You need to find a job to get software development experience, and you need the experience to find a job. A Catch 22? Well, not exactly. For one older notes →