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LIVENESS: THE TEMPORALITY OF CODE INTER-ACTIONS
17 NOV, 2015 @ AARHUS UNIVERSITY
Winnie SOON | Ph.D Fellow | www.siusoon.netSchool of Communication and Culture
The Center for Participatory IT
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[materialist approaches] embrace both the material substrates andabstract of programming languages required for data storage,processing and exchange: code, hardware devices, operatingsystems, software, applications, platforms, interfaces, documents,file formats as well as networking protocols and infrastructure.
(Casemajor, 2015, p. 5)
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DATA PACKET/BUFFER
Principle organization of a playback buffer. Reprinted from Internetworking: Technological Foundations andApplications (p. 783), by Christoph Meinel & Harald Sack, 2013, Berlin: Springer. Copyright 2013 by Springer.
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The network structure of today’s communication channels and oftheir information stream is often understood as providing a directconnection between users and services or between twocommunication partners, even though there cannot be any directconnections on digital networks. The metaphor of the flow concealsthe fact that, technically, what is taking place is quite the opposite.There is no stream in digital networks.
(Sprenger, 2015, pp. 88-89, my emphasis)