Workshop »Screen Operations«
Berlin, 13-14 July 2016
Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik
This paper argues that digital computing is sustainably organized by the agency of visual displays. A praxeological analysis based on Harold Garfinkels “net-work theory” reveals that the operability of the first programmable digital general-purpose computers is based on three properties that are characteristic of computing today: the non-representational, public and discrete nature of computer screens.
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