This is my multidisciplinary improvisation after cursory scan. Please forgive me. I'll revisit to make sure I'm not repeating the OP or the author. Liminal is

This is my multidisciplinary improvisation after cursory scan. Please forgive me. I'll revisit to make sure I'm not repeating the OP or the author. Liminal is key here. I believe this arises from the fact that we frequently have the luxury of simplicity in software enabled by the fact that the imaginary part is that things like generic pointers allow us to pretend as if a physics of software is non-existent, at least until computational complexity catches up and re-asserts physics dominance over our control theory from the stoics. What's missing is extensibility. In particular, infinite extensibility. All hail Alan Kay. The relationship between those two has puzzled me for a while, at least since I started writing on this topic post-Covid. The last things I wrote were along the lines of "bringing Lacan to software" - getting at the idea that there was a Lacanian frame there which needed further exploration. Reminds me of reading the history of cybernetics which IIRC shares the greek root with Kubernetes. Lev Manovich should get some credit for applying McLuhan's idea of hybridization to software more specifically than McLuhan's target: technology beyond media. https://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/blog/2014/09/10/the-software-is-the-message/ https://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/blog/2014/09/10/the-softwa...