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These days, whether the problem is climate change or boredom, there is an app for that. The rhetoric of problem and solution, accelerated by commercial needs and salvific tech gurus, implies that software can save the world. This paper wants to start a movement/rebellion against the ubiquitous equation of P(problem) + S(software) = S(solution) as a ...
Sicart, Miguel Angel, Shklovski, Irina
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PRASCAL: a pataphysical programming language [PDF]
This paper introduces PRASCAL, a programming language that distorts traditional PASCAL using pataphysical principles. The aim of the language is to stimulate creativity and to embed playfulness in computer systems. A wider aim is to reach towards a less severe, more human, form of logic.
Hugill, A, Yang, H
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Creative search using pataphysics [PDF]
This paper looks at defining, analysing and practicing how creativity can be applied to search tools. It defines creativity with respect to search and discusses how these concepts could be applied in software engineering using principles from the pseudo-philosophy of pataphysics.
Fania Raczinski +2 more
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Pataphysics and Computing [PDF]
Given the transcendent subjectivity of pataphysics and the low-level exactitude of computing, it might seem at first glance that the two can have little in common. Yet computing has repeatedly used pataphysical approaches. In software abstractions, imaginary solutions are often encountered and the notion of equivalence is not so startling. Pataphysical
Andrew Hugill, James Hendler
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The simultaneity of complementary conditions:re-integrating and balancing analogue and digital matter(s) in basic architectural education [PDF]
The actual, globally established, general digital procedures in basic architectural education,producing well-behaved, seemingly attractive up-to-date projects, spaces and first general-researchon all scale levels, apparently present a certain growing ...
Wiesner, Thomas
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This article plays a game with Jean Baudrillard's thought and the intellectual traditions on which it draws. Or rather, it plays Baudrillard's game but with a cheat code. The game or program here is the hyperreality of the contemporary world—Baudrillard's integral or virtual reality characterized by the dominance of things—of objects over subjects ...
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This paper provides critical background and insight into the practical and theoretical context of my artistic practice, by focusing on the concept of nothing.
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Cortázar, Surrealism And Pataphysics
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Sara, Castro-Klarén +1 more
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Playing with Constraint: Performing the OuLiPo and the clinamen-performer [PDF]
Approaching a rare example of constraining literature written for performance, this article introduces the ‘clinamen-performer’, a term used to describe the unpredictable and playful behaviours of the performer under constraint.
Bray, OP
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A Política Antifascista de “Estudiar” [PDF]
This article argues that art education ought to be central to the struggle against contemporary capitalist fascism. The authors turn to the space and time of the studio as the unique contribution of art education to antifascist struggles.
Hyland, Peter, Lewis, Tyson
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