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Codework is, Codework is not

Reading Response - Week 5

 Alan Sodenheim's explanation of what codework actually is in it's physical and verbal contexts, by telling us what it is not and where it exists.  This work is likely more comparable to a poetry than coding or programming, which drives me to believe that that is exactly what programming is - poetry.  Programming language is a coded, determined, and layered rhetoric designed to produce a desired output.  And so is poetry.  Yet both forms of communication are driven by a force beyond themselves, which objectifies them into use for commodification.  But how do we learn to understand and to recreate for a desired effect?  Saussure's explanation of signs and signifiers can provide some solace for those seeking to know why we identify "what is" as that specific "what is."  The object of programming, like that of linguistics, rests in an input - a "what is"- that requests a visual and reactive output.  Yet in the realm of programming, the computer performs what the brain does with language.

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