two essays by Vera Bühlmann: "The creative conservativeness of computation" & "Reclaiming the Role of the Mathematical in Understanding Media [and the Technics of Digital Communication]" with Michel Serres

Vera Bühlmann is one of the most challenging new thinkers of media and technology around.  
(Applied Virtuality Lab, ETH Zürich, http://www.caad.arch.ethz.ch/  )
Well worth engaging.

The creative conservativeness of computation
http://monasandnomos.org/2015/01/29/the-creative-conservativeness-of-computation/

The Sun and its Inverse: Reclaiming the Role of the Mathematical in Understanding Media [and the Technics of Digital Communication] with Michel Serres