You recently published an article with the tile "There is No Software." What happens with the discourse network between the hard- and software of literature and theory?

We can definitely learn something in the humanities. When I think back on my old literary criticism, the good essays are actually didactic pieces in programming. How did Duke Carl Eugen von Würtemberg program Friedrich Schiller? I didn't write about Schiller's sentiments or religion because all I had was a bare-bones model: educators and princes program the novelist for a specific civil function in the state. You don't need hardware or an understanding of technology to grasp that. What you need is a fundamental understanding of concepts such as hardware, programming, automatization and regulation. In cultural studies, a structural engineer's way of thinking is useful, rather than an adaptation which remains entirely on the surface, like you with your Frankfurt School....


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