“Всякое описание мира сильно отстает от его
развития.
”
(Translation from Russian: “Every description of the
world seriously lags behind its actual development.
”)
(API, or Application Programming Interface, is a code that allows other
computer programs to...
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“Всякое описание мира сильно отстает от его
развития.
”
(Translation from Russian: “Every description of the
world seriously lags behind its actual development.
”)
(API, or Application Programming Interface, is a code that allows other
computer programs to access services offered by an pplication.
For
instance, people can use Google Maps API to embed full Google Maps
on their own web sites.
) (Manovich, 2008)
Cultural Software
German media and literary theorist Friedrich Kittler
wrote that the students today should know at least
two software languages; only “then they ll be able to
say something about what culture is at the
moment.
”6 Kittler himself programs in an assembler
language - which probably determined his distrust of
Graphical User Interfaces and modern software
applications, which use these interfaces.
In a
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classical modernist move, Kittler argued that we
need to focus on the “essence” of computer - which
for Kittler meant mathematical
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