Index

Table of Contents

Introduction: Life Coding                                       Martin Howse          10
  
Endonomadology                                                  Otto E. Rösler        16
  
The Universal Dovetailer Argument                               Bruno Marchal         26
  
The Universal Dovetailer coded in Lisp                          Bruno Marchal         38
  
Screenshot cat 1                                                Erich Berger          60
  
Comparison between Karl Pribram's <<Holographic Brain Theory>>  Jeff Prideaux         62
and more conventional Models of Neuronal Computation
  
The English Mail-coach                                          Thomas De Ouincey     86
  
Perl Routines to manipulate London                              Graham Harwood       120
 
Notes on the Concept of the Bio-adapter                         Oswald Wiener        128
  
Screenshot cat 2                                                Erich Berger         146
  
Endophysics                                                     Otto E. Rösler       148
  
Screenshot cat 3                                                Erich Berger         174
 
War.pl                                                          Graham Harwood       176
   
Process.lisp                                                    Paul Graham          178
  
From Ripper to Stripper and back again: Anti-riot Number Three  Stewart Home         182
  
Screenshot cat 4                                                Erich Berger         190
 
Mercury Acoustic Delays and Natural Computing                   Anthony Moore        192
  
/bin/rm -rf /* ::f**** the system                               Yves Degoyon         198
 
Extract from Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs  Harold Abelson       202
                                                                Gerald J. Sussman
                                                                Julie Sussman

Pornographic coding                                             Florian Cramer       228
                                                                Stewart Home
  
Screenshot cat 5                                                Erich Berger         240
  
Plenum                                                          Shu Lea Cheang       242
                                                                Armin Medosch
                                                                Martin Howse
  
Plenum, the Scenario                                            Shu Lea Cheang       246
                                                                Armin Medosch
                                                                Martin Howse
  
Plenum PD Patches                                               Martin Howse         254
  
New Russian Literary Trend: Chauvinist and Revolutionary        Olga Goriunova       256
<Male Literature> of Udaff.com
 
By the Source of Life. Appendix                                 Leif Elggren         276

As if I was my Father                                           Leif Elggren         284

Monadology                                                      Gottfried W. Leibniz 292
  
Human-Computer Oscillation and the Need for Calories            Graham Harwood       304
  
Screenshot cat 6                                                Erich Berger         312
  
A Gargoyle Automaton for the Chain-reaction Glitterati          socialfiction.org    314
   
An Artificial Cognitive Map System                              Otto E. Rösler       320
  
Kodiak.lisp                                                     Peter Norvig         330
 
Screenshot cat 7                                                Erich Berger         348
  
Protected Mode                                                  Friedrich Kittler    350
  
A Psychopathic Hymn: J.G. Ballard's <Crashed Cars>              Simon Ford           362
Exhibition of 1970
  
Media and Drugs in Pynchon's Second World War                   Friedrich Kittler    370
  
Screenshot cat 8                                                Erich Berger         386
  
Emanuel Swedenborg's Physical Computing                         Jonathan Kemp        388
 
Digital Feedback as Another State of Matter.                    Aymeric Mansoux      402
Automated Creation Processes as a new Clay
  
Jabberwocky and London.pl                                       Florian Cramer       406
  
Screenshot cat 9                                                Erich Berger         412
  
Version Control                                                 Martin Howse         414
  
Pynchon and Electro-mysticism                                   Friedrich Kittler    450
  
Index                                                                                462
About the Authors                                                                    472