Index

AAC 72

abduction 126-8, 131, 157, 160 aesthetics 158-60

abductive logics 20 abductive reasoning 21, 126,

131, 157

Ackerman, M. S. 74 activity streams 144 actor-network theory 112, 222n.

Adorno, Theodore W. 19, 23, 32, 36,

49, 53, 92-4, 102, 122-3, 131, 149-50, 152, 155-6, 160, 171, 198, 219n. 1 (Ch 5)

aesthetic disinterestedness 164 After Effects 189

Age of Boredom 197 age of context 211,213

Agencement 18, 218n. 8 Agger, M. 178

Alexander, C. 128-9 algorithmic humanity 176 algorithmically co-constructed

humanity 178

algorithms 6, 11, 19, 35, 38, 48, 51,

54, 61, 70, 75, 81, 85-7, 95,

99, 112, 123, 130, 133-4, 145, 152, 156, 165, 172, 177-8, 181, 186, 189, 192-3, 196-7, 206, 210, 223n. 1 (Ch 6)

Alien Aesthetics 163

alien objects 162

Alleyne, B. 186

Amazon 6, 136

Amazon Kindle 45

Amazon Mechanical Turk 74, 147, 181 America 28, 67, 217n. 10

American Gut 14

American Telegraph Company 78

Anamnesis 156

Anderson, F! 117, 178 Andreessen, M. 3, 179

Anthony, S. 210 anti-correlationist paradox 107,

118, 162-3 anti-pattern 129 Antonelli, F. 124 Antonina, K. 130

AP (Associated Press) 139 APIs (Application Programming

Interfaces) 10, 63, 72, 75, 188, 212

Apple 18, 73 Apple Siri 211, 213 Appleton, B. 128-9

AppleTV 8 application testing 187 apps 17, 62, 66, 73, 144-5, 208, 213

Android apps 138

iOS apps 163 mobile apps 143 Arato, A. 27, 31 Archangel, C. 77 arche-fossil 106 Architectural Patterns 129 archive in motion 156 Ari, V 130 Aron, J. 138 Arrington, M. 42 'artificial artificial intelligence' 74 artistic culture 150 ASBOrometer 219n. 13 Assange, J. 14, 146, 216n. 8, 223n. 3 Asset Backed Securities (ABSs) 86 augmented humanity 5, 174, 178, 210, 212 austerity 172 Austin, D. 130 authoritarian-computational epistemology 12 auto-curate user-chosen streams 173 Ayman 79

back-office rationalization 4

Bamford, J.

Barbro, B. 130

Barnett, E. 77

Bassett, C. 44 batch-processing 61

Bateson, G. 105, 126

BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) 17, 20, 42

Beaulieu, A. 156

Beck, R. 85

Beckett 33

behaviour marketing and nudges 134

Being 60, 90-2, 100, 108, 113, 118, 199

Benjamin, W. 33, 176, 195

Bernstein, M. S. 74, 197

Betaware ChartBeat web bug 134

Bhaskar, R. 58-9

Biederman, I. 130

Bishop, C. 150-1, 159 bitmapped images 2

Bjork 73

black blocs 183-4

black boxes 26, 43, 82, 155, 170-85, 190, 193, 213

Black, M. J. 166, 189

Blake, T 117

Blank, F? 124

Blue Screen of Death 98

Bogoslaw, D. 85

Bogost, I. 104-5, 107-16, 118-19, 160-3, 219n. 2 (Ch 4)

Alien Phenomenology 104, 111, 114

Boltanski, L. 186-7

bonds 82

Booksprints 45

boredom 197-205

Borenstein, G. 154, 160-3

Borgmann, A. 13, 169, 184

Borthwick, J. 124-5, 173 bottom-up and top-down processing 130 Boundless Informant 61 bourgeois philistinism 32 Brad 187

Bridle, J. 152-4, 158, 160-1 Britain's Government Communications

Headquarters (GCHQ) 146 Brown, W. 129 Bruinius, H. 183 Bryant, L. 103, 105-7, 113-14 Bucher, T. 132 business to business 25 Byres Security 140

C + + 104, 165, 191,210, 221n. 16 Callon, M. 174 Calypso 86 cameras 154, 211 Canabarro, E. 87 capitalism 5, 16, 24, 26-30, 33,

35-6, 46, 82-3, 89, 96-7, 102-3, 149

categories in 69 cognitive 177 computational 118-20, 127, 159, 166-7, 204, 214

modern 53 monopoly 179 neoliberal 118 product of 134 and SR/OOO 117 uncanny ability 216n. 6 captology 64 Carlson, T. 203 Carr, N. 6-7, 178-81 Cartesian ontology 89 cascading database systems 215n. 1 Castells, M. 217n. 3 (Ch 2) casual gaming systems 75 Catt, R. D. 152 CBSNews 139 CCTV 159, 163 Charlesworth, J. J. 108 Cherry, S. 138 Chess 2.0 8 chronicle streams 132 Chun, W. H. K. 17 19, 63, 94 citizen science 14 Civilisation and its Discontents

(Freud) 33 Clark, D. 181 Classificatory thinking 167, 195 codal level 58, 68-70, 81,83, 86 code

aesthetics 164-7 language 169 literacy 192 vulnerabilities 140 cognitive capture 145 cognitive powers 180-1 Cohen, J.

Collusion 134 comet subjectivity 174 commons-based production 26 compactants (computational actants) 8, 68-70, 145, 219n. 2 (Ch 5) compasses 211 compunication 16 computal industries 25 computation 172

abstraction 25

age 178 capitalism 89 challenges 1 cultures 63, 67 devices 7, 98 identity thinking 19 ideologies 197 inequality 176 media 56 over-production 5 shadow 204 society 24 computer chips 18 computer code 35, 37, 40, 46, 54, 66, 82-3, 116, 123, 141-2, 164-6, 188, 192, 210, 221n. 12 software code 37 46, 82, 123, 164, 210 computer worm 138, 141, 220n. 11 computer/robot vision 152 computers 87, 98, 126 conspicuousness 99-100, 156, 164 consumption-led economic system 26

content delivery networks (CDNs) 71 cookies 132, 134, 137 220n. 5 Cope, A. S. 152 coping tests 185-8, 191

CORAL 66 (Computer On-line Real-time Applications Language) 206 correlationism 106, 108, 113, 115-16, 196

Cox, G. 164, 166

Cranor, L. F. 136

Crawford, M. 178

Creative Commons 224n. 4 creative industry 151

Credit Default Swaps (CDSs) 86 Credit Value Adjustment (CVA) 85-6 Criminal Reduction Utilising

Statistical History (CRUSH) system 61 critical praxis 169-93 critical social theory 54

analysis of literary genre 33 bourgeois philistinism 32 contemporary culture 33 critical reflexivity 29 and Marxism 27 critical theory 26-37

dialectic of enlightenment 33

Fascism 27-8

fetish 30

Freudian theory 33

Hegelian idea of an ultimate goal of history 32 logic of capitalism 36 mass communications 33 modernization 27, 34

Nazism 27 phenomenology and existentialism 30

rise of computational technology 35 scientific praxis 27 self-fulfilling praxis 34

social life into market relations 35 technological rationality 36

theory of literary production and reception 31

unity of consciousness 32

Will to Power 32 Crowell, D. 74 cryptography 13-14, 146-7, 184, 205, 214, 216n. 8

Cryptome 221n. 15 cryptowars 216n.

Cue 211

Cultural Differences

engine 67, 217n. 1 (Ch 3) cultural memory 22 culture industry to digital culture 25 see also critical theory; digital and critical theory customer to business 25 customizable processes 25 cybernetic societies 183-4 cyberstructure 71-81 cypherpunk 14, 22, 48, 184, 216n. 8

D'Argenio, M. 6

Dada 27

dark pools 85

DARPA's ARGUS-IS drone aircraft 60 Dartel, M. v. 213 data moshing 186

dataveillance 132

Davies, N. 21,61

Davies, R. 152 de Rijcke, S. 156 dead labour 75

The Decline of the West

(Spengler) 205 deep boredom 198 DeepSec 221n. 13 Deleuze, G. 11 democratic glass blocs 185 Derrida, J. 175-6 Design Patterns 129 designed exploits 141 destination model 3-4 Deuze, M. 124 Dewey, R. A. 131 Dexter, S. 165 Dialectic of Enlightenment (Horkheimer and Adorno) 32, 122

Dieter, M. 213 digital and critical theory 37-51 bound versus unbound 45 client-server architecture 41 close reading versus distant reading 46 code-based protocols 40 computational 'polities' 40 critique of knowledge (Erkenntniskritik) 48 deep versus shallow 45-6 digital devices 50 fixed versus processual 46-7 focused versus distracted 46 governmentality and software 39 humanities disciplines 51 individual versus social 45 linear versus hypertextuality 44 military-industrial complex 49 narrative versus database 44 neoliberalism 42 permanent versus ephemeral 44-5 philosophy of average modern intellectual 48

private power relationships 38 process-oriented computational systems 37

protocol teardowns 40 real (physical) versus digital (virtual) 47

rejecting internet 43 social critique (Kritik an der Gesellschaft) 48

TCP/IP protocol 41 digital and literary 216n. 7 digital Bildung 188, 193 digital code 24, 26, 45, 48, 57 digital packet-switching services 5 digital rights management (DRM) technologies 71 digital technology 13, 182 digital writing 190 discursivity thesis 94 Dixon, D. 126 Dobias, J. 134 document object model storage (DOM Storage) 220n.

dominant class 171, 176, 179

Doritos 163

doxa 200

Dreyfus, H. L. 4, 49, 99

Duffie, D. 87

Duggan, M. 6

DuQu 221n. 17

East German Stasi 61

Eaton, K. 136, 210, 212

e-books 6

economics of ubiquity 178 Economist 87, 143

EdgeRank algorithm 132

Edward Snowden 197

Efrati, A. 135

Eldridge, M. 127-8

Electronic Freedom Foundation

(EFF) 48

Ellis, E. 154, 160 email spamming 215n. 4 encryption 13, 20, 147 214 enlightenment 22, 208, 211 entertainment technology 71 environmental habitus 124 ethic of self-care 66 Europe 137, 206 European Advertising Standards

Alliance (EASA) 137

Evans, S. 221n. 16

Evers, J. 136 exhaustion 96, 207, 209 exhaustive media 205-14

Exinfoam 154

existence 5, 7, 17, 92, 94-5, 106, 109,

111-13, 118, 128, 146, 150,

152, 154, 163, 175, 201 Expressionism 27 extra-human 106

Eyal, N. 134

Facebook 6, 21,41,50, 77 79,

96, 132, 136, 143-4, 203, 212, 218n. 5

Facetime 6

Fascism 27-8 feature analysis 130 feedforward loops 12

Feenberg, A. 24

Fernandez, F! 154

Fernholz, T 179 financial trading 82

1stfans Twitter Art Feed 77 flaneur-like approach 153 flat design 70 flat ontology 107

Flores, F 13, 50-1,98 fly-by-wire 95

Foucault, M. 4, 65, 69-70, 157 172, 207-10, 214

Fourier analysis 130

Fowler, M. 115

Foxtracks 134

fractured objects 99

France 67

Frank, C. 58

Frankfurt Institute 35

Frankfurt School 2, 12, 19, 22-3, 26,

29-30, 33-5, 119, 169 Freedland, J. 178 Freeman, E. T. 132 Freeman, H. 158 Freestyle-Chess 9 Freudian theory 33 Frey, T. 222n. 21 Fried, I. 136 Fuller, M. 8, 122, 214 Fuller, S. 8, 155, 180, 182 full-take Internet buffer 146 Fulton, S. M. 222n. 24 future self continuity 145

Galloway, A. R. 10, 40, 50, 62-3,

104-6, 120, 183, 193, 204 game mechanics 75 gamification forms 144 Gannes, L. 178

Garber, M. 137-8

Gates Foundation 182

Gaussian distributions 84

Gebhardt, E.

Gelernter, D. 15, 73, 75-6, 132 genealogy of reification 102 generation entelechy 205-7 German idealism 196

Germany 26-8, 67

Ghostery 134-5, 220n. 6 gigantism 197-205

glitch ontology 93-6

Goffey, A. 214

Gold, M. K. 157

Golumbia, D. 13, 19, 117, 127, 200 Goodale, G. 138

Google 135-6, 212

Google + 50, 132

Google Glass 210

Google Now 173, 211-12

Google policy 212

Google Street View 223n. 1 (Ch 6) Gostev, A. 142

government debt markets 82

GPS 211

Grant, C. 158 Greenberg, A. 140

Greenwald, G. 20 Gregory, J. 84, 105, 126

Gross, M. J. 140, 221n. 14 Grunberg, Carl 26

Grusin, R. 154

Guardian 17, 42, 61, 115 Guattari, F 11

Gyford, P. 154 gyroscopes 211

habitus 18, 38, 124, 179 hackers 26, 48, 82, 143, 200

Haines, T 78

Halsbury 64

Hannu, V. 130

Harley, D. 221n. 14

Harman, G. 103-4, 106-7, 109-10,

112-14, 116-18, 162 Harraway, D. J. 69 Hartman, B. 74

Harvey, A. 157 hashtag 73, 77, 218n. 4

Hastac 77

Hayles, N. K. 18-19, 124, 172, 174 Hegel, G. W. 28

Hegelian Marxist 27

Heidegger, M. 19, 49, 59-60, 89-92,

94, 96-102, 108, 111, 113-14, 116, 157, 162-3, 185-6, 198-9, 201-4

Being and Time 90

Heires, K. 84-5, 87

Held, D. 12, 25-33, 35-9, 49, 122-3,

149-50

Hewlett Packard 136

Hickman, L. 61

high-frequency trading (HFT) 85 high-speed adaptive algorithmic inter­faces (algorithmic GUIs) 100

Hill, K. 144, 145, 221n. 19

Hoffman, P. 181

Holmwood, J. 42-3

Holt, J. 181-2

Holy Grail of risk management 85 Hopkins, N. 142, 166

Horkheimer, M. 19, 23-4, 26-9, 31-2,

34-6, 47-9, 94, 102, 122-3, 149, 170, 197-8, 224n. 1 Hotel Geraberg 26 Hoyer, K. G. 58 HTML 44, 57 HTTP cookies 220n. 4 HTTP state management mechanisms 134

Hu, Y C. 138

Hubspot 79

Huff, J. 153

Hughes, L. 216n. 4 human-centred philosophy 110 human-computer design 98 human-computer interaction 8-9 human resources 90

Humboldt 179

Hutchins, E. 134

hyper attention 172, 211

hypomnesis 156

ICO 137

identity thinking 12, 15-16, 19, 65,

77, 114, 117-18, 120, 123, 125, 196

Implementation Patterns 129 individuational level 58 industrial algorithm mediated databases 71

industrial internet 1, 8, 41, 77 information

literacy 192

overload 173

processing systems 16

transfer between objects 113 transfer systems 16 innovation 26, 34, 50, 56, 71-2, 112, 124, 132, 143, 199

Institute for Social Research 23, 26 integrated development environments (IDEs) 63, 165

intellectual culture 150, 169 intellectual property rights 26 intelligentsia 207

interactional level 58 International Telecommunications

Union (ITU) 3, 10

Internet-centrism 15

iOS apps 163 iPhone 143

Iran 67, 138-9, 141-2

Irani, L. 74-5, 147 Iranian uranium-enrichment

facility 138

Israel 142

iteracy 185, 190-1,204, 214 see also reading digital

Jackson, R. 160-3

Jameson, F 162

Jarmo, T 130 Jarvis, J. 12, 28, 34, 53-4, 89-93, 100-2, 125-6, 150, 161, 179, 195-6

Jarvis, S. 178

Java 57, 165

Jay, M. 12, 170, 216n. 6

Jazz 33

Jenkins, H. W. 174 Jones, M. 152, 154

Jorion, F! 84

The Journal of Social Research 26 just-in-time manufacturing 25

Kafka 33

Kaganskiy, J. 154 Kalakota, R. 3

Kampfner, J. 10

Kant, I. 24, 89, 91, 100, 108, 208

Critique of Pure Reason 100 History and Class

Consciousness 4

Karger, D. R. 74

Kasparov, G. 8-9

Kasprzak, M. 213

Kellner, D. 170

Kennish, B. 135

Kimbell, L. 116

Kirschenbaum, M. G. 188

Kitchin, R. 39, 56, 121-3

Kittler, F. 86

Know Your Meme website 187 knowledge 101

and information 177

Kohler, E. 215n. 4

Kondor 86

Kopstein, K. 28, 60

Kruszelnicki, K. 138

laminated system 58-9

Langley, F. 84

Langner, R. 141-2, 221n. 12 laptops 6, 73, 208

Lash, S. 6, 122, 155-6, 170

Latour, B. 104-5, 145

Lawrence, S. H. 16, 40, 173

Lea, D. 128

Legates, J. C. 16

legitimate tests 187

Lehman Brothers 84

Lemus, A. M. 6

Leonard, A. 181

Lessig, L. 40

liberation 32, 35, 112

Library of Congress 78 lifestream 132

Literate Programming (Knuth) 166

Little, G. 74

Livingston, F. 201

Locally Stored Objects

(LSOs) 220n. 4

Logic Pro 189

logical level 58

login or sent message 61 logistics 58

Love, D. 136 low-resolution 'digital' graphics 2

Lukacs, G. 4-5, 28, 30, 122

Lury, C. 122

Lyotard, J. F. 177-8

Mac, R. 146

MacAskill, E. 20

Madrigal, A. 60, 133, 135

Malcho, J. 221n. 14

Malveau, R. 129 management dashboards 25

Mandarins 26 man-in-the-middle attack 141

Mann 33

Mannheim, K. 205-7

Manovich, L. 44, 156-7

Marcuse, H. 23-4, 28, 34, 36, 38,

49, 149-50

Marino, M. C. 164 market-failure 182

Markoff, J. 139, 142

Marx, K. 29, 65 mass media 33 massively parallel virtual

worlds 215n. 1

material culture 150 materialism 34, 92, 95, 119

Matrosov, A. 221n. 14 matter-image 122

Mazieres, D. 215n. 4

McCormick, H. 129

McDonald, A. M. 136

McLean, A. 166

McNeil, J. 152

Media Hackers 199

Meillassoux, Q. 104, 106-7, 120

After Finitude 106

Memory Industries 71

Memoto Lifelogging Camera

215n. 3

Menkman, R. 156

Messianic 175

metadata 21, 96 metaphor 1, 19, 40, 60, 62, 77, 105,

113, 163, 171, 183 metaphysics 5, 36, 91-3, 110-12, 117 microphones 211

Microsoft 129, 133, 140, 222n. 19

Milian, M. 135

Miller, R. C. 42, 74

Mims, C. 179

MindMeld 211

Mitcham, C. 95

Mittal, S. 220n. 5 modernization 34

Moler, C. 130 monopolistic practices 26, 31, 179-80

Moore's Law 18

Moretti, F 46

Morgan, M. 130, 135

Morozov, E. 6, 15-16, 42, 141,

216n. 10, 217n. 2

Morse code 77

Morton, T 108

motion 11, 63, 156, 189

Mowbray, T 129

MP3 41, 72

Muller, N. 213

Murex 86 musement 160

Myrtus 142, 221n. 15

Naess, P. 58

Naraine, R. 140-1

Nasdaq terminal 216n. 5

Nazism 27, 36 negative dialectics and fundamental ontology 89-93, 101

Neil, A. 223n. 2

neoliberal governmentality 65-6

Network Advertising Initative

(NAI) 135

networked gaming systems

215n. 1

Neue Sachlichkeit 27

New Aesthetic 152-64

abduction aesthetics 158 concept of musement 160 digital pareidolia 159 frantic disorientation 162 gushing disorientation 162 pattern aesthetic 157, 159 relationship between humans and computers 161

The New Aesthetic (website) 153

The New Aesthetic: Seeing Like Digital Devices 152

new ecology of artifice 95

new meta-systems 212-13

Newton Project (online archive) 22 n-gram 96, 219n. 1

nihilism 112, 184, 198

NoLOC 218n. 4

non-demands 184

Notes on the Synthesis of Form

(Alexander) 128

NSA (National Security Agency) 20, 61, 146, 184, 193, 197

NYFA 77

O'Connor, B. 54, 92-3, 101

O'Reilly, R. 213

O'Reilly, T 100, 211

obfuscated code 192 object-oriented onticology 108, 114 object-oriented ontology 105 object-oriented programming

104, 108

Oettinger, A. G. 16

Offensive Security Research 221n. 13 oligopolistic practices 31 open access 193, 220n. 9,

223n. 1 (Ch 7)

open source intelligence 61

open source software groups 224n. 4 openness 182

Oram, A. 166, 192

Outhwaite, R. W. 23, 109

Owens, T. 154

own reasoning 208

Pakistan 21

Panovich, K. 74 pantelegraph 218n. 6 parameterization 167

Parikka, J. 188

Parisi, L. 152, 158

Parker, J. 58

Parltrack software 222n. 26

Pathak, A. 138

pattern aesthetic 154, 157, 159

A Pattern Language (Alexander

et al.) 128

pattern recognition 126, 129-31 patterns 21,39, 61,71, 125-31, 133,

150, 157, 159-60, 173, 192 peer-to-peer networks 22, 78,

217n. 2 (Ch 2)

Peirce, C. S. 126-7 160 personalized processes 25 persuasive technology 64 Peterson, D. G. 221n. 12

Pew 137 pharmakon 157

Phillips, J. 218n. 8 philosographer 117-18 philosography 116 philosophical software carpentry 114-15 physical level 58

Pinterest 158

pixels 2, 135, 152, 154, 156, 163, 213, 220n. 6

platforms 7, 38, 40, 47, 56, 62, 76, 85, 137, 142-3, 189, 215n. 1

PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers) systems 140

Poitras, L. 20-1, 61 political praxis 13 popular culture 149

Portanova, J. 152, 158 possibility

concept of 11 conditions of 167

Poster, M. 51 post-Fordist society 10 post-industrial knowledge work society 18

Preda, A. 70, 78, 80-1, 218n. 6

PRISM (US-984XN) intelligence monitoring programme 61 privacy 14, 69, 134-7 178, 222n. 25 Privacy and Electronic Communica­tions (EC Directive) (Amend­ment) Regulations (PECR) 2011 137

Pro Tools 189

project of deconstruction (destruktion) 89

prototype matching 130 pseudo-digital objects 158

Pykhtin, M. 86

quantitative micro/millisecond oscillations 98

Quinton, L. 78

Radinow, P. 4 radio transmitters 211 Radlab 42 Raine, L. 6 Raley, R. 132, 197 Raymond, M. 217n. 3 (Ch 3) RDF (Reuters Data Feed) 78 reading digital 185-93 real illusion 53 real-time computational feedback mechanism 173 real-time data streams 60, 72, 85 finding alpha 87

social art or social design 77 real-time notification of a chat login or logout event (RTN-IM) 61 real-time notification of an 'email event' (RTN-EDC) 61 real-time social networks 96 real-time streams 85, 132, 142, 212 Reification technologies 132-47 Relyea, D. H. 6 remediation 17 reprocessing 10 res cogitans 89-90 res extensa 89-90 retroduction 127 reverse engineering 104 RFID 127

chips 211

webs 213 Rhizome 153 Richmond, S. 212 Rieland, R. 143 riparian citizen 213 riparian mode 204 Robbins, J. 142 Roberts, B. F 6, 123, 219n. 2 (Ch 5) Roberts, J. 6 Roberts, S. 123, 222n. 19 Rodionov, E. 221n. 14 Roose, K. 179 Rosenbach, M. 20-1, 61 Rossiter, N. 172 Ruby code 63, 191 Rush, F. 24

Russia 27 141, 181 Rybczynski, W. 128

Salas, E. 160

Sanger, D. S. 139, 142 sat-nav devices 6

SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) 140

Scalar system 59

Schecter, D. 2, 4, 7, 11-12, 26, 28, 65-6, 69-70, 94, 97, 101-2, 108, 125, 197 schema-driven or top-down processing 130-1 Schmid, F. 20-1, 61

Schmidt, E. 181 Schofield, M. 61 Schott, B. 78-9 Schurz, G. 127 Schwartz, M. 21 search engines 67, 217n. 2 (Ch 2) Searls, D. 142

secondary memory 211 second-order data see metadata secular mythology 102 seeing like machines 155 self-critical 24

self-defined anti-correlationists work 108

self-regulation in the technology industry 136

Sense 222n. 22 sensor-venacular 154 service-oriented vocationalism 188 Servin, J. 123

Shanken, E. A. 158-9 Share, J. 170 Shaviro, S. 162 Shirky, C. 178, 181 Shunmugam, V. 85 Siemens 140

Silberman, M. S. 74-5, 147 Silicon Valley 81

Simon, T. 67-8, 217n. 1 (Ch 3) simulacra 95

Sina Microblog 218n. 7

Siri 173

600m telephone events 21

Skype 6

Sloan, R. 154, 160 Smith, R. 74, 153 social networks 96, 217n. 2 (Ch 2) social totality 1

Soderberg, J. 25 software 17-18, 54, 71

capitalist economy 66

code 82

commodity 69

financial services sector of economy 82

mass engineering techniques of Fordism 83

mechanism 69

notion of truth and falsity 70 platform 56

understanding code 83 solutionism 15

Somalia 21

Spacks, F! M. 197

Speculative realism 107 speculative realism/object-oriented ontology (SR/OOO) 90, 103-4, 160-1

commitment to realism 118 computational metaphors 105 flat ontology of objects 115-16 heterogeneity of entities 117 humans 109

lack of historical awareness 117 metaphor or alluding to things 113 metaphysical legitimation of com­putational capitalism 120 nature/culture split 119 society and historical reflections 105

Speculative Turn 107

Speers, L. 124

Spiegel 146, 182

Spotify 41, 73

Srnicek, N. 106-7

Stalinism 28

Stampoulis, T. 84-5 standing reserve 60, 90, 96 Stanford 222n. 27

Stark, H. 20-1,61

Steiner, C. 6

Sterling, B. 8, 152-4, 160-1

Stiegler, B. 8, 55, 57, 71, 156, 210 Stock, J. 20-1, 61 stocks 82 Stuxnet 138-41

C programming language 142 sunset code 139

Stuxnet code 221n. 14 subsumptive thinking 195 SunChips 163

Sunstein, C. R. 134 surfing the web 67 Surrealism 27

Swartz, A. 67-8, 217n. 1 (Ch 3) SXSW (South By South West) 152,

223n. 1 (Ch 3) Symantec 138 system testing 187

tablets 6

TCP/IP 10, 41 technical power 25 technicity 59-60, 96, 157 technophobia 216n. 7 techno-social apparatus 182 telegraphic codes 78 telephone 5-6, 61, 180 template matching 129-30 Tempo 211 terabyter 222n. 21 Terrett, B. 152 Thaler, R. H. 134 theory of literary production and

reception 31 Thevenot, L. 186-7 TheyWorkForYou 222n. 26 Thiele, L. P. 198-9 Thomson, A. 12 Thomson, I. 94 3D printing 4, 25, 223n. 1 (Ch 6) three-screen system 7-8 Thrift, N. 212 time axis manipulation 86 The Timeless Way of Building

(Alexander) 128 Totsis, A. 201 trackers 134 traditional cultural criticism 149 trajectories 1 transparency 182 as ideology 193

Tripp, S. 175-6

Trojan 142 truth-machines 87 see also

computers

Tsukayama, H. 137 Tugend, A. 145 Tumblr 156

Turnbull, N. 217n. 3 (Ch 2) 23andme 14

Twitter 2, 41,50, 73, 77-9, 96,

132-3, 143, 156, 203, 211 messages 76 trance 80, 199 visualization systems 218n. 10

Twitter app 143

Twitterer 76 two screen games 8

uBiome 14, 216n. 9

UK GCHQ 146

Ullman, E. 64

The Soul of a New Machine 64 ultra-vivid description (ekphrasis) 108 Unicode characters 217n. 2 (Ch 3) unit testing 187 United Kingdom 20, 61, 137, 206 United States 19, 27, 61, 137, 142, 206, 217n. 10

The United States Foreign Intelli­gence Surveillance Act 1978 (FISA) 61

US NSA 146

user interface (UI) 62 user-interface testing 187 UX 210

Vicente, J. L. 213

Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) 6

VorhandenheitfZuhandenheit (present- at-hand/ready-to-hand) 97

W3C 137

War and Peace (Tolstoy) 179

Ward, A. 166 weaponization 140 web beacons 133 web bugs 67, 133 Weiser, M. 97-8 Weizenbaum, J. 38, 40, 43,

48, 51, 158-9 Weltanschauung 209 Western Marxist 27 whistleblower 197 Wiedemann, C. 205 Wiener, N. 37, 105 Wi-Fi 211 Wiggershaus, R. 12, 27 Wikileaks 197 Wikipedia 41, 96 Wilson, G. 166, 192 Wing, J. 192 Winograd, T. 13, 50-1, 98 wired, electric switching technology 5 wireless radio networks 213 Wolfram, S. 133, 219-20n. 3 Word Processor 74

Xbox One 8 Xerox Pala Alto 7

Xiao 77

Yarrow, J. 136 Yemen 21 YouTube 3, 178 Yuill, S. 151, 164

Zax, D. 96 Zehle, S. 205 Zeo (headband) 143 zero-day vulnerabilities 140-1 zettabyte 3

Zetter, K. 139-40, 221n. 17 Zhang, G. 84

Zhang, M. 138 Zhu, S. H. 86 zombie botnets 215n. 1