{"id":10358,"date":"2016-07-03T16:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T16:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/programmers-computer-scientists-and-critical\/"},"modified":"2016-07-03T16:00:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T16:00:24","slug":"programmers-computer-scientists-and-critical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/programmers-computer-scientists-and-critical\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Programmers, computer scientists, and critical theorists have reduced software to a recipe, a set of instructions, substituting space\/text for time\/process. The current common-sense definition of software as a \u201cset of instructions that direct a comptuer to do a specific task\u201d and the OED definition of software as \u201cthe programs and procedures required to enable a computer to perform a specific task, as opposed to the physical components of the system\u201d both posit software as cause, as what drives computation. Similarly, alexander Galloway argues, \u201ccode draws a line between what is material and what is active, in essence saying that writing (hardward) cannot do anything, but must be transformed into code (software) to be effective\u2026 . Code is a language, but a very special kind of language. Code is the only language that is executable \u2026 code is the first language that actually does what it says. This view of software as \u201cactually doing what it says\u201d (emphasis added) both separates instruction from, and makes software substitute for, execution. It assumes no difference between source code and execution, between instruction and result.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Wendy Chun,\u00a0<i>Programmed Visions\u00a0<\/i>(2011)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Programmers, computer scientists, and critical theorists have reduced software to a recipe, a set of instructions, substituting space\/text for time\/process. The current common-sense definition of software as a \u201cset of instructions that direct a comptuer to do a specific task\u201d and the OED definition of software as \u201cthe programs and procedures required to enable a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2H4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}