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Close and Deconstructive Readings of a Software Trace

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

There are two trace reading practices with techniques borrowed from structuralist and post-structuralist narratology:

1. Close reading

- emphasizes structural patterns

- looks at a software trace as a unity of messages

- searches for similarities, repetitions and contrasts

- reveals code reflections in message texts

2. Deconstructive reading

- reveals subconscious exposed in message texts

- searches for conflicting and absent messages

- looks at a software trace as a disunity of messages from conflicting components

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -