Release | Special Issue of IT&P on “Coding Society: Programmatic Encounters Between Information Systems and Social Theory”

Special Luhmann Conference 2025 issue of Information Technology & People on the theme of “Coding Society: Programmatic Encounters Between Information Systems and Social Theory” Click here for the issue as published on the IT&P website. Contributions Dinesh Kumar and Nidhi Suthar: Programmes as decision premises in AI-mediated organisations: a social systems theory perspective Diane Laflamme: […]

Release | When Programmes Disagree About Programmes: Large Language Models, Code Poetry, and the Problem of Programme–Programme Communication

Abstract: Purpose: This article examines the theoretical implications of organisational decisions being increasingly prepared, filtered, produced through or attributed to computational programmes rather than individual human actors. It asks under what conditions interactions between such programmes may be analysed as communicatively consequential and what this implies for management and organisation theory.Design/methodology/approach: The article develops a conceptual analysis […]

Event | When Programmes Disagree About Programmes: Code Poetry and the Problem of Programme–Programme Communication

What happens when programmes interpret programmes? As decision-making becomes increasingly mediated by computational procedures, interactions between programmes themselves come into view as a potential site of communication. This workshop explores the challenge of programme–programme communication through the case of code poetry—an artefact that simultaneously invites formal execution and semantic interpretation. Drawing on a moderated dialogue […]