Of Code and Complexity: Haylesian Computation and Derridean différance
Critical and semiological readings of code and language—and how they resonate and differ—tend toward 'complexity': both as a writerly modality and as a primary phenomenological subject. In view of this inexorability, this reading considers how 'complexity' might be accessed and/or described by literary and semiotic theory.
What Computers Can’t Be: Identifying the links between ‘Children’ and ‘Experts’
Is a computer's intelligence potential 'self-imposed' by environment (software) or 'designed' into the limit of its machinery? In the context of the computer and the 'digital subject', this paper looks at Hubert and Stuart Dreyfus's observations on computer intelligence and the learning abilities of children and adults, the 'novice' and the 'expert'.
