{"id":3814,"date":"2011-03-10T06:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T06:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2011\/03\/10\/words-made-flesh-code-culture-imagination-by\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T04:18:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T04:18:51","slug":"words-made-flesh-code-culture-imagination-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/03\/10\/words-made-flesh-code-culture-imagination-by\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Words Made Flesh: Code, Culture, Imagination<\/strong>\u00a0by Florian Cramer<\/p>\n<p>Media Design Research<br \/>Piet Zwart Institute<br \/>institute for postgraduate studies and research<br \/>Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam<\/p>\n<p>A b s t r a c t: Executable code existed centuries before the invention of the computer in magic, Kabbalah, musical composition and experimental poetry. These practices are often neglected as a historical pretext of contemporary software culture and electronic arts. Above all, they link computations to a vast speculative imagination that encompasses art, language, technology, philosophy and religion. These speculations in turn inscribe themselves into the technology. Since even the most simple formalism requires symbols with which it can be expressed, and symbols have cultural connotations, any code is loaded with meaning. This booklet writes a small cultural history of imaginative computation, reconstructing both the obsessive persistence and contradictory mutations of the phantasm that symbols turn physical, and words are made flesh.<\/p>\n<p>Download as a PDF <a href=\"http:\/\/pzwart.wdka.hro.nl\/mdr\/research\/fcramer\/wordsmadeflesh\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0(broken)<\/p>\n<p>via:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/post.thing.net\/node\/392\">post.thing.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.netzliteratur.net\/cramer\/wordsmadefleshpdf.pdf\">PDF\u00a0download link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Words Made Flesh: Code, Culture, Imagination\u00a0by Florian Cramer Media Design ResearchPiet Zwart Instituteinstitute for postgraduate studies and researchWillem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam A b s t r a c t: Executable code existed centuries before the invention of the computer in magic, Kabbalah, musical composition and experimental poetry. These practices are often neglected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-3814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-video_graphics","tag-man-machine","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-Zw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3822,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/03\/10\/experiencing-the-fear-of-technology-robo\/","url_meta":{"origin":3814,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Experiencing the Fear of Technology&#8221; &#8211; Robo Culture Wiki","author":"monochromist","date":"March 10, 2011","format":"link","excerpt":"\"Experiencing the Fear of Technology\" - Robo Culture Wiki-The end of the human resistance is fast approaching- The rise of technology will no doubt lead to our downfall as the eminent creatures on earth. 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