Samson, Audrey; Muldtofte, Lea; Soon, Winnie; Snodgrass, Eric and Gallardo, Francisco. 2018. Execution. In: Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova, eds. Posthuman Glossary. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 141-145. ISBN 9781350030244 [Book Section]

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Execution is a function that operates within a range of systems, such as language, computation or biology. This contribution traces a few of these instantiations of execution in order to highlight the materially discursive quality of any particular executing system, with the discussion moving from law and guillotine, language to langue, computer instruction and memory. In each case tracing the way in which execution produces situated posthuman couplings in a dynamic ensemble of such conjugating systems.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	Authorship of the book chapter is credited to the Critical Software Thing collective. Contributors to the chapter are Audrey Samson, Lea Muldtofte, Winnie Soon, Eric Snodgrass and Francisco Gallardo as part of the Critical Software Thing collective.
Keywords:	Non-human Agency, Mattering, Ecosophy, Extinction, Necropolitics, Violence
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Art
Dates:	Date Event 22 February 2018 Published
Item ID:	27720
Date Deposited:	09 Dec 2019 16:23
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2019 14:09
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/27720

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