Revision, Culture, and the Machine: How Digital Makes Us Human

MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA

John Bryant will draw upon examples from revision studies, adaptation, and translation in order to highlight the elements of creativity, appropriation, and cultural difference that are at stake in dealing with the ethics and editing of revision.

Reading Programming Code as a Cultural Object

MIT Building 14E, Room 311 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

Let's talk about what it means to start reading code differently, as cultural objects and statements. Let's raise the questions that need to be raised.