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I know I promised you all a second part of the series in reading the #SourceCode of #Photoshop 1.0−and that other thing about female bodies in #ImageProcessing as well. And I will deliver. Just not on time. #2021 is going to be a great year! 😉 #SoftwareStudies #TheDigitalImage
How do you read the #SourceCode for Adobe #Photoshop 1.0.1 as a #humanities scholar? www.digitalesbild.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/en/reading-the-source-co... #ImageProcessing #SoftwareStudies #CriticalCodeStudies #TheDigitalImage @DasDigitaleBild
#Softwarestudies “tend to ‘ontologize’ software as the condition of possibility of contemporary life, and to privilege software studies as a master discourse”. (Federica Frabetti, Software Theory)
The circularity of #softwarestudies: They “alternate between searching for social and cultural meanings in software on the one hand, and offering technical expositions of ‘how software works’ on the other”.(Federica Fabretti, Software Theory)
I may not agree with all assumptions and arguments (or find the grounding in Simondon's philosophy very helpful) – but Bernhard Rieder's Engines of Order is a VERY good book! Anyone seeking a better understanding of #software in the #humanities ought to read it. #softwarestudies
“Code is neither trivial nor transparent, but for any experienced developer it is a familiar means to access a domain of *function* that is vastly more complex than the term is able to address.” (B. Rieder, Engines of Order) #softwarestudies #criticalcodestudies
“Software, in other words, asks a question to which the political interpretation of software is the only coherent answer.” (Alexander Galloway, 2006) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/147041290607... #softwarestudies
As I am closing my reading list for methodology of #softwarestudies, any suggestions for more recent, marginal or little-known texts on the topic that I should consider for my study on #Photoshop and #imageprocessing? #dasdigitaleBild #thedigitalimage
Week 3 of project on #Photoshop and #imageprocessing: More (re)reading on methods and critique of #softwarestudies, like Wendy Chun’s “On ‘Sourcery,’ or Code as Fetish” (https://dir.lat/KF8BMp Also: I have to start to actually write the...
Why #interfacecritique? “[B]ecause, to novices and professionals alike, what is presented to one’s senses *is* one’s computer.” (Alan Kay, 1984) #softwarestudies #dasdigitaleBild
From clay to Chinese porcelain, okay. But what about the possibility of the golem of AGI to come? #softwarestudies
“[T]he task for someone who wants to understand software is not simply to see the pot instead of the clay. It is to see […] the possibility of the Chinese porcelain and Limoges to come.” (Alan Kay, 1984) #softwarestudies
“The computer field has not yet had its Galileo or Newton, Bach or Beethoven, Shakespeare or Molière.” (Alan Kay, 1984) More than thirty years later, still an accurate assessment? #softwarestudies
Week 2 of project on #Photoshop: More reading on #softwarestudies. Remarkable theoretical and methodological tension, I think, between programmatic texts and actual case studies.
#softwarestudies: a “theory of the present” (@manovich) grounded in the “meticulous documentary research” on the history of its digital objects (@mkirschenbaum).
Certainly not the biggest news but still worth mentioning: Online archives of computer magazines like https://archive.org/details/computermagazines are a great ressource for #softwarestudies. More than 4,600 hits for #Photoshop in this particular collection. #imageprocessing...
Fortunately for me and others in the field, pioneers in media history and in #softwarestudies like @manovich have left some work yet to be done on the history of #Photoshop. #imageprocessing #dasdigitalebild
1st stage of project The Processed Picture: review #Photoshop's technological and cultural roots and evolution, draft chapter on methodology of #softwarestudies. http://tinyurl.com/TheProcessedPicture #imageprocessing #dasdigitalebild
Looking forward to Marino’s forthcoming Critical Code Studies (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/critical-code-studies Will arrive just in time for the chapter on methodology of #softwarestudies in my book on #Photoshop ! #imageprocessing #dasdigitaleBild
AFAIK, there have been very few, if any, exhaustive #softwarestudies on one major piece of software (say, a popular consumer application). Why is that?
