Program

A program is an assembly of production; a set of operative entities that can communicate to produce results. The creation of a program is the assemblage of such. Programs are akin to spirits in that they are movement to produce results.
Reza Negarestani defines program as a thing with certain definitional features, which are ‘the selection of a set of axioms, and the elaboration of what follows from this choice if the axioms were treated not as immutable postulates but as abstract modules that can act upon one another.’ It seems Negarestani is saying that a running program ‘is the embodiment of the inter-actions between its set of axioms that reflect a range of dynamic behaviors with their own complexity and distinct properties. More specifically, it can be said that programs are constructions that extract operational content from their axioms and develop different possibilities of realization (what can be brought about) from this operational content.’
See: programming; grimoire; software; operators; operatives; axiomatics.