Hard_Code

by Eugene Thacker (Editor)

HARD_CODE is an anthology of experimental electronic prose which asks the question: What kinds of stories are told by data?

Installer log file --
Disappearance / Tina Laporta --
_Datableeding: / MEZ --
n+a+n+o / Kenji Siratori --
Mad cow / Harold Jaffe --
Visible body project / Rebekah Sheldon --
The aesthetics of generative code / Geoff Cox, Alex McLean, Adrian Ward --
Re_fleshing the body / ID Runners --
Proteomic phase response&etc... / Eugene Thacker --
Versions / Jacques Servin --
Autopsy scan / Julia Solis --
Robotic / Steven Shaviro --
Hard_code theater / The Unknown --
Time][signature][ modality not ][appli] / MEZ --
Artificial constructions : Solaris / Fakeshop.txt --
From My oblivion / Abe Golam --
trashlife2 / Gashgirl --
lure/id / Alan Sondheim --
oooxxxooo / Juliet Martin --
search?q=code / //meta --
Love-life of the story (56 chromosomes) / Shelley Jackson --
Baggage / Don Webb --
Matrix.64 / Christina Goestl --
Medium / Tina Laporta --
George the Third / James Flint --
Art for business sake / Daniel Garcia Andujuar --
Treatise of ART ++ / MEZ --
Untitled / Cercle Zutique --
liquid05 / Liquid Nation --
Lost / Steven Shaviro --
Bell's theorem / Intima --
Primal gravy / Matthew Fuller --
Shuttle archaeology / Alan Sondheim --
Fragments discovered on a recording machine owned by an amnesiac / Doug Rice --
Hardcore / Kenji Siratori --
Faux / Harold Jaffe --
Teratogenic mute[ation] / MEZ --
A new capillary vision system&etc... / Eugene Thacker --
space99 / Doll Yoko --
Erotic / Tina Laporta --
Bodies in Flatland / Steve Tomasula --
Telegenesicide / Andi & Lance Olsen --
BIOS.

307 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2001

About the author

Eugene Thacker is an American philosopher, poet and author. He is Professor of Media Studies at The New School in New York City. His writing is often associated with the philosophy of nihilism and pessimism. Thacker's books include In the Dust of This Planet and Infinite Resignation.