Mark C MarinoToday I shared a preview of Inventing ELIZA, giving the intro chapter to all participants in the 2026 Critical Code Studies Working Group! Very excited to bring this book, born of the working groups, into the world this summer after so many years of collaborative study! #critcode
Lyr Colin & Carly Schnitzler lead up Week 4 of the Critical Code Studies Working Group on New Work & New Directions. #critcode
https://wg.criticalcodestudies.com/index.php?p=/discussion/223/week-4-new-work-and-new-directions
Deadline Feb 1. CFP: Retro AI: Archaeologies of Artificial Intelligence at USC July 31-Aug 1, 2026, in-person symposium looking at the history of AI, ethics, innovation, and more.
Retro AI: CFP
Retro AI: Archeologies of Artificial Intelligence In-Person at USC: July 31, August 1 Extended Deadline: Feb 1 The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has long been obsessively focussed on the next big breakthrough which would solve its defining problems. While interventions like critical...
Spotlight on Output: Computer Generated Text 1953-2023 edited by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort. It's our featured book in Week 3 of the Critical Code Studies Working Group! Chock full of fascinating generators, including ELIZA!
The Source Code Exhibition by UNESCO and the Software Heritage Foundation marks a major milestone on Critical Code Studies. Mathilde Fichen, Titaÿna Kauffmann, Stefano Penge, and Camille Picard. #critcode
Check out the online manifestation.
https://www.sourcecode-exhibition.softwareheritage.org/
How do we study hidden operations through code?
One of the discussions in the 2026 Critical Code Studies Working Group.
https://wg.criticalcodestudies.com/index.php?p=/discussion/203/ice-air-data-appendix
We're featuring the new book on Intellivision by Braxton Soderman and Tom Boellstorff this week in the Critical Code Studies Working Group! Looking at code from the game system for smarties. #critcode
Week 2 of the 2026 Critical Code Studies Working Group begins with some provocarion from David Berry on AI and vibe coding.
Week 1 of the Critical Code Studies Working Group also features a discussion of Forty-Four Esolangs by Daniel Temkin including code critiques of several of his brilliant esoteric programming languages!
We're extending the deadline to Feb 1. CFP: Retro AI: Archaeologies of Artificial Intelligence at USC July 31-Aug 1, 2026, in-person symposium looking at the history of AI, ethics, innovation, and more.
