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Category Archives: Turing

Bogost on Turing

16-Jul-12

A very McLuhanesque reading of Turing by Ian HERE. There’s more to be written in reading Turing this way – in my article I went for a Latourian reading. More or less the same thing if you’re an OOO-er.

Why Aren’t We Reading Turing?

23-Jun-12

It’s Turing’s 100th birthday today, so I wrote THIS. Warning to scientists – it contains Latour.

Machinic Intelligence: An Important Argument from Turing.

25-Feb-12

This time from Can Digital Computers Think?, a lecture in 1951. This passage is particularly important for my thesis too (my emphasis). Certainly the machine can only do what we do order it to perform, anything else would be a mechanical fault. But there is no need to suppose that, when we give it its [...]