First paragraph - markdown.
**Curious features of code** The formalised rigour of code and formal machine-performable scripts (as software code, as algorithm) is a particularly powerful - and problematic - feature of the dance of knowing in the present century. The cultural landscape §2 has acquired enormously and newly powerful means of determining the **material** landscape §1. This warrants a specific note, following.
Examining this, we also may highlight the way in which dealing with matters of rigour - which are central in the §2 cultural landscape of knowing and capability - lifts us out of the cultural landscape, and into the §3 **aesthetic** landsape.
**Notes on code and the expansion of sensibility - The digital as a hybrid material-cultural and cultural-aesthetic landscape**