“Second, though, I also want to make evident just how much such a transformation costs. Politics, creativity, ambiguity, irreverence—none of these can be grafted at a later stage, onto a silent steel core, or even poured, like life-giving water, over inherently desiccated foundations. The whole story has to be turned upside down.” Brian Cantwell Smith*

Thirty year later

“In the end I argue for reconstituting the theoretical framework on which present-day computer science rests.” Brian Cantwell Smith†

Journey through the upside down story of reconstituting the theoretical framework of computation at https://www.karlfant.net.

*Smith, Brian Cantwell, On the Origin of Objects. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996. p x
†Smith, Brian Cantwell, Computational Reflections. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2026. p 1