[D66] Moonbit

[A. OUT]

To Load into Smode


Starting verb erasable
memory fixed memory
octal everything

normal and alarm
in idle loop

the failreg set
turns on the alarm light
the operator
initiated fresh start

three failregs
since the last man
show-banksum
the bugger word
erasable accomplished

exception is a restart
unless there is evidence to doubt
in which case program
equals				 selfret
equals				 is it necessary
equals				 new job

illegal option
go to idle loop

Charley, come in here


On 21-07-19 07:20, A. OUT wrote:
> 
> https://punctumbooks.com/titles/moonbit/
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/oavhzd0feye6i36/Dobson_Mosteirin_Moonbit_EBook.pdf
> 
> Moonbit goes deep into the heart of textual mystery to illuminate what
> was once lost, forgotten, obscure. Through their linguistical and
> anthropological uncovering of the Apollo Code, Rena J. Mosteirin and
> James E. Dobson restore our humanity by reviving this potentially lost
> world of a truly miraculous syntactical feat. Moonbit is a fascinating
> plunge into the poetics of thought and control and execution; language
> can indeed land us in other worlds. In this case, Moonbit is a new world
> that makes manifest the poetics of revival and syntax and debris. This
> poetic exploration is an exercise in how we imagine and partake in
> creation and possibility, showcasing how very delicate our worlds and
> our words can be. Memory, this book reminds us, is a thing that can be
> saved. Dobson and Mosteirin have saved it for us, revealing how we
> humans are creatures of terror and hope no matter the medium. Code is
> poetry and poetry is code and both contain what and who we are as
> people. I am so grateful for witnessing, in this text, how miraculous is
> the fall out and debris.
> 
> ~ Jenny Boully, author of Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing
> Life, The Book of Beginnings and Endings, and The Body
> 
> This is a fascinating book that exists in that magical space where human
> and machine collide. Come for the poetry, stay for the code.
> 
> ~ Chelsea Hodson, author of Tonight I’m Someone Else
> Moonbit
> 
> by James E. Dobson, Rena J. Mosteirin
> 
> Published: 07/20/2019
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> 
> Moonbit is a hybrid work comprised of experimental poetry and a critical
> theory of the poetics and politics of computer code. It offers an
> extended intellectual and creative engagement with the affordances of
> computer software through multiple readings and re-writings of a
> singular text, the source code of the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer or the
> “AGC.” Moonbit re-marks and remixes the code that made space travel
> possible. Half of this book is erasure poetry that uses the AGC code as
> the source text, building on the premise that code can speak beyond its
> functional purpose.
> 
> When we think about the 1960s U.S. space program and obscure scientific
> computer code, we might not first think about the Watts riots,
> Shakespeare, Winnie the Pooh, T.S. Eliot, or scatological jokes. Yet
> these cultural references and influences along with many more are
> scattered throughout the body of the code that powered the compact
> digital computer that successfully guided astronauts to the Moon and
> back and in July of 1969. Moonbit unravels and rewrites the many
> embedded cultural references that were braided together within the
> language resources of mid-century computer code.
> 
> Moonbit also provides a gentle, non-expert introduction to the text of
> the AGC code, to digital poetics, and to critical code studies.
> Outlining a capacious interpretive practice, Moonbit takes up all manner
> of imaginative decodings and recodings of this code. It introduces some
> of the major existing approaches to the study of code and culture while
> provide multiple readings of the source code along with an explanation
> and theorization of the way in which the code works, as both a
> computational and a cultural text.
> About the Authors
> 
> James E. Dobson teaches at Dartmouth College. He is the author of
> Critical Digital Humanities: The Search for a Methodology (University of
> Illinois Press, 2019) and Modernity and Autobiography in
> Nineteenth-Century America: Literary Representations of Communication
> and Transportation Technologies (Palgrave, 2017), as well as essays and
> book chapters on intellectual history, American literature, and
> computational methods.
> 
> Rena J. Mosteirin is the author of Nick Trail’s Thumb (Kore Press,
> 2008), selected for the Kore Press Short Fiction Chapbook Award by Lydia
> Davis. Her work has been featured in the anthologies code {poems}
> (Barcelona: Impremta Badia, 2012), The Waiting Room Reader II (Fort Lee:
> Cavankerry Press/UPNE, 2013), and a wide variety of places in print and
> online including New York Magazine, The Puritan, Poetry Crush, Ozone
> Park, and elsewhere. Mosteirin is a graduate of Dartmouth College and
> the Bennington Writing Seminars. She is an editor at Bloodroot Literary
> Magazine.
> Genres: Cultural Studies+Critical Theory, Fabulations, Media+Technology
> Tags: Apollo 11, computer code, computer engineering, critical code
> studies, cultural studies, cybernetics, digital humanities, digital
> poetics, erasure poetry, experimental poetry, Friedrich Kittler, history
> of computing, informatics, jokes, Lev Manovich, machine reading,
> Margaret Hamilton, MIT Instrumental Lab, Moon landing, N. Katherine
> Hayles, NASA, Richard Grusin, Rita Raley, scatology, software, T.S.
> Eliot, technology, Watts riots, Wendy Chun, William Shakespeare, Winnie
> the Pooh.
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