Computational Culture, a journal of software studies, July 2025

Sunday 27th July, 2025 - Bruce Sterling

Computational Culture, a journal of software studies
Issue Ten, July 2025

Special Issue: Situated Bayes
Edited by Juni Schindler, Goda Klumbytė and Matthew Fuller

Special Issue Introduction
Juni Schindler, Goda Klumbytė, Matthew Fuller, [Situated Bayes – Feminist and pluriversal perspectives on Bayesian knowledge](http://computationalculture.net/situated-bayes/)

Special Issue Articles

Clemens Apprich, [Learning How to Learn: Abduction as the ‘Missing Link’ in Machine Learning](http://computationalculture.net/learning-how-to-learn/)

Alan F. Blackwell, Nicola J. Bidwell and Charlie Nqeisji, [Computing a Pluriversal Future](http://computationalculture.net/computing-a-pluriversal-future/)

Elizabeth de Freitas, [Quantum cognition and the limits of classical probability models](http://computationalculture.net/quantum-cognition/)

David Gauthier, [The Cancelling Out of Chance](http://computationalculture.net/the-cancelling-out-of-chance/)

Christopher Lawless, [Subversive Witness: The Disruptive Influence of Bayes Theorem on Forensic Science](http://computationalculture.net/subversive-witness/)

Adrian Mackenzie, [Generating samples: re-writing Bayes Rule as a probabilistic AI hack](http://computationalculture.net/generating-samples-re-writing/)

Conrad Moriarty Cole, [Poetics of Opacity: Glissant and Bayes](http://computationalculture.net/poetics-of-machinic-opacity/)

Krystin Unverzagt, Tobias Krueger, Anja Klein, Márk Somogyvári, Rossella Alba, [Situating Bayesian Knowledge: A Case Study of Modelling Pollutant Transfers from Land to Water](http://computationalculture.net/situating-bayesian-knowledge/)

Special Issue Interview

Maria Chehonadskih and Matthew Fuller, [Life-building and Perspectival Vision](http://computationalculture.net/life-building/)[, an interview with Maria Chehonadskih, author of](http://computationalculture.net/life-building/)[Alexander Bogdanov and the Politics of Knowledge after the October Revolution](http://computationalculture.net/life-building/)[.](http://computationalculture.net/life-building/)

General Article

Tony D. Sampson, [Where Positive Flow Can Thrive: A Critical Approach to User Experience and Control in the Computational Workplace](http://computationalculture.net/where-positive-flow-can-thrive/)

Comments

Annet Dekker, [Pluralities of Scale, thinking through technical development](http://computationalculture.net/pluralities-of-scale/)[, an interview with Martijn van Boven and Florian van Zandwijk, curators of the exhibition](http://computationalculture.net/pluralities-of-scale/)[Pluralities of Scale. 70 Years of Microchip History](http://computationalculture.net/pluralities-of-scale/)

Kye Sung Lee, [Translator’s note to “Machine Translation and Benjamin: Pure Language”](http://computationalculture.net/translators-note-to-machine/)

Jae Hyun Lee, [Machine Translation and Benjamin: Pure Language,](http://computationalculture.net/machine-translation/)translated by Kye Sung Lee
Reviews

John Cayley, [The Mesh We’re In](http://computationalculture.net/the-mesh-were-in/)[, a review of, Aden Evens,](http://computationalculture.net/the-mesh-were-in/)[The Digital and its Discontents](http://computationalculture.net/the-mesh-were-in/)

Diana Lengua, [InterFrictions](http://computationalculture.net/interfrictions/)[, a review of, Jakko Kemper,](http://computationalculture.net/interfrictions/)[Frictionlessness: The Silicon Valley Philosophy of Seamless Technology and the Aesthetic Value of Imperfection](http://computationalculture.net/interfrictions/)

Júlia Nueno Guitart, [Here Again, Numbers Rule](http://computationalculture.net/here-again-numbers-rule/)[, a review of Mike Hill,](http://computationalculture.net/here-again-numbers-rule/)[On Posthuman War, computation and military violence](http://computationalculture.net/here-again-numbers-rule/)Warren Sack, [Code, Capital and Culture](http://computationalculture.net/code-capital-and-culture/)[, a review of Brian Lennon,](http://computationalculture.net/code-capital-and-culture/)[Programming Language Cultures: Automating Automation]

(http://computationalculture.net/code-capital-and-culture/)
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