{"id":4798,"date":"2009-12-26T08:21:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T08:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2009\/12\/26\/programming-as-poetry-2\/"},"modified":"2009-12-26T08:21:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-26T08:21:40","slug":"programming-as-poetry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2009\/12\/26\/programming-as-poetry-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Programming as Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fundamentally what distinguishes poetry and programming from other literary disciplines is their mutual focus on the word as talisman capable of being a reservoir for consciousness. In poetry, this consciousness is subtle and charismatic; in programming, explicit and binary. In programming, this audacious faith in words is palpably manifest in that every functional program is an emulation of thought which through integration in an apparatus manipulates matter. In addition, the urge to evoke identity from absence is central to programming; digital intelligence has evolved from the void; it has emerged from the unconceivable; \u00a0it is the volatile product of severe imagination linked with the will.<\/p>\n<p>full text:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr\/docs\/00\/06\/21\/00\/HTML\/index.html\">Programming as Poetry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fundamentally what distinguishes poetry and programming from other literary disciplines is their mutual focus on the word as talisman capable of being a reservoir for consciousness. In poetry, this consciousness is subtle and charismatic; in programming, explicit and binary. In programming, this audacious faith in words is palpably manifest in that every functional program is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":[],"class_list":["post-4798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video_graphics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-1fo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2597,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2012\/04\/20\/programming-as-poetry\/","url_meta":{"origin":4798,"position":0},"title":"programming as poetry","author":"monochromist","date":"April 20, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"In order to effectively examine whether programming is an evolutionary descendant of poetry, it is perhaps wise to begin by asking: what is poetry? 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