[ Thanks to Dave Guard for this
link. ]
“JP: Code is described as many things: it is a
cultural logic, a machinic operation or a process that is
unfolding. It is becoming, today’s hegemonic metaphor; inspiring
quasi-semiotic investigations within cultural and artistic practice
(e.g. The Matrix). No-one leaves before it has set its mark on
them…“DB: Yes, it has become a narrative, a genre, a
structural feature of contemporary society, an architecture for our
technologically controlled societies (e.g. Lessig) and a tool of
technocracy and of capitalism and law (Ellul/Winner/Feenberg). It
is both metaphor and reality, it serves as a translation between
different discourses and spheres, DNA code, computer code, code as
law, cultural code, aristocratic code, encrypted code
(Latour)…”