Attached is a PDF showing Gabriel Tarde’s diagrams of imitative rays as illustrated in Tony Sampson’s book Virality. Might be interesting to mobilize against/with the other models of network diagrams from the readings.

Politics of Interface and Obfuscation – http://eyebeam.org/events/the-politics-of-interface-and-obfuscation

2 questions on data and aesthetics–
Lev and Susan, I would be interested to hear your thoughts on the opposition between traditional linear narratives and alternative modes of information organization as […]

PDF of the article on art and smartphones mentioned in class – http://www.tanyaleighton.com/p/p000420/Artforum_summer_2013.pdf

Here are two broad questions that this week’s readings brought up for me.
1) Who has authority in software studies – Is it possible for a scholar to account for “the software layer” without the ability to read […]