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Concern for the protocol object has been dominated by issues of relationality, processuality and potentiality. This has drawn a picture that can be seen as reductionist insofar as these accounts position digital objects as built on something more basic, as echoes of a deeper reality – in the case of JPEG, a deeper, more fundamental …

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This project seeks to understand and also takes place in the ‘digital imaging pipeline’, that space of objects and object connections within hardware and software scopic apparatuses where light-becomes-date-become-image. Although the term ‘pipeline’ would tend to connote process and movement and linear relations, I will come on to draw it in terms of objects. To …

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Three intro sections for three longer sections for one chapter for… The relational object For software and critical code studies, locating the digital or code object within a field of relations has been a powerful axiom. As part of a broader hegemonic struggle within media and cultural studies, exploring protocols, interfaces, languages and algorithms as …

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At first sight David M. Berry’s The Philosophy Of Software{Berry 2011} would appear to offer an object-oriented account of software objects. After all,  Berry draws on Bruno Latour’’s ‘philosophy’⁠1 to argue for an account of power-full code actant-objects. “Code is striking in its ability to act as both an actor performing actions upon data, and …

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