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critical analysis

Entering the 'cyberdebates' initiated by Nick Montfort, John Cayley, and Rita Raley, new media scholar Mark Marino proposes that we should analyze and explicate code as a text like any other, 'a sign system with its own rhetoric' and cultural embeddedness.

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One of the earlier proponents of critical software studies was Lev Manovich in The Language of New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001, p. 48.

‐ Jan Van Looy

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For some examples of Perl Poetry, see http://www.perlmonks.org

‐ Jan Van Looy

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For an excellent review of My Mother Was a Computer, go here.

‐ Jan Van Looy

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And if all this is discussed, what then? The problem of field delimitation, the tendency to elaborate complexity without constraint, and an incipient sclerosis in contemporary critical studies is discussed by Andrew McMurray in his introduction to Critical Ecologies circa 2006.

‐ Joseph Tabbi

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