Executing

It is commonly understood that execution designates the process by which a computing machine follows the step-by-step instructions of a program. Yet execution does not happen in a vacuum and is neither deterministic by nature. In this entry we argue that while there might be codes instructing a machine how to execute, the processual unfolding and worldly embeddings in which executing instructions are resolved is nothing but uncertain. In present-day computational cultures and infrastructures, complex relations are effected and effaced within conflations of languages, symbols and meanings with technical, cultural and political desires and decisions. A situation that can be thought of as a continual resolution, composing and rendering of various generative, undecidable, invisible, affective, intersecting and executing uncertainties.