The following thoughts manifest in a code, letter by letter, syllable by syllable, and are then printed and thus materially stored as something which, for the sake of simplification, is categorized here as Old Code—the English. “Old Codes” go back approximately 7000 years and are usually called “natural languages” or “human languages.” These include all languages which support the coherency of social superstructures such as religions, ideologies or nations, and are found at all points in history.

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These new developments are the programming languages which I shall call New Codes. These New Codes are, like all language codes, closed systems of semiotic elements. The texts which are formulated in these languages, or programs, are performative strings of signifiers that keep the alliance of mathematical theories and electromagnetic practices on course, they are the literature of information society. The New Codes are responsible for the inter-communication of technical interfaces.