The Media & Literature discussion group is arranging the following session for the MLA meeting in Philadelphia, December 2006:
“Reading Codeâ€
Papers on the aesthetics, politics, and poetics of code; machine translation; relations between natural languages & programming languages; codework; protocols; genetic code and biomedia; operational text.
Abstracts and brief CVs by March 17 to Rita Raley, raley at english DOT ucsb DOT edu
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We just had a talk here about the rhetoric of comments in source code. Fascinating stuff.
Who gave the talk? he asks, curiously.