Spaces of Flaws of Flows: COBOL and the back-back-ends of development

Introduction Between the years of 2013 and 2020, I carried out a multi-layered, intersectional interrogation of the supposedly obsolete programming language COBOL, with the aim to provide insights into aspects of global information architectures that are otherwise hidden and inaccessible. This led me to engage with a form of human-machine interchange that, unlike the ideal …