DRAFT — under review
Puppet Masters

Week Nine: Puppet Masters — Distant Coding

[ ENG 6806 // FALL 2026 // WEEK OF OCTOBER 19, 2026 ]

the road so far

(look, no hurricanes! *knocks wood*)

textual

Conversation as interface

prompting as writing

outputs as code

generative text

distant reading

visual

computational imagination

post-human photography

translation of image to text

moving pictures

images as data

procedural

talking to computers

algorithmic influence

software interfaces

creative coding

what we’re building towards

AI as computational interface

understanding agents

applications across disciplines

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-generated-images-bias-racism-sexism-stereotypes/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_32