“Having been asked to review these two books together forced the issue somewhat, but it would be difficult to review FLOSS+Art and Software Studies: A Lexicon in isolation. There are, as Ted Nelson put it, many ‘interwinglings’. Authors, academic institutions and shared lines of thought travel between both edited collections. Figuring out the significance of these manifold relations is perhaps as interesting a way as any other to tap into their joint subject matter: software. Indeed, both collections develop upon an important strand of the new media field with implications for understanding software as well as the working practices of authors, coders, designers, educators, artists, users, consumers, and activists. Above all, both books think through software not only in terms of what it does but what it is all about. To put it another way, FLOSS+Art and Software Studies aim to introduce software’s inside to its outside…” Continue reading Turning Software Inside Out by Tony D. Sampson, Meta Mute.