Abstract
As well as introducing the Coding Labour section, the authors explore the diffusion of code across the material contexts of everyday life, through the objects and tools of mediation, the systems and practices of cultural production and organisational management, and in the material conditions of labour. Taking code beyond computation and software, their specific focus is on the increasingly familiar connections between code and labour with a focus on the codification and modulation of affect through technologies and practices of management within the contemporary work organisation. In the grey literature of spreadsheets, minutes, workload models, email and the like they identify a violence of forms through which workplace affect, in its constant flux of crisis and ‘prodromal’ modes, is regulated and governed.
Highlights
Code is an elusive object of analysis for media and cultural studies
Code encompasses the laws that regulate human affairs and the operation of capital, behavioural mores and accepted ways of acting, but it defines the building blocks of life as DNA. In this way code refers to the operational technical systems and instructions that configure and govern machines as well as bodies, and designates the cultural techniques and protocols that affect and are affected by social relations
We illustrate the everyday work of code within the contemporary organisation, in the ‘grey literature’ of forms, spreadsheets and workload models, and in the routinisation of the organisational crisis
Summary
Code is an elusive object of analysis for media and cultural studies. It is perhaps already over fetishised, and often thought of as the exclusive property of computer science, engineering or bioinformatics.
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