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The imaginary app / edited by Paul D. Miller and Svitlana Matviyenko.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Software studies (Cambridge, Mass.)
- Software studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Computers and civilization.
- Mobile computing--Social aspects.
- Mobile computing.
- Application software--Social aspects.
- Application software.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (328 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The mobile app as technique and imaginary tool, offering a shortcut to instantaneous connection and entertainment.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I Architectures
- 1 On Apps and Elementary Forms of Interfacial Life: Object, Image, Superimposition
- 2 Controlled Consumption Culture: When Digital Culture Becomes Software Business
- 3 The Philosophical Carpentry of the App: Criticism and Practice
- 4 Remote Control: Wolfram|Alpha and Machinic Protocol
- 5 The Path Is Math: On the Art and Science of Numbers
- II Prosthetics
- 6 Auxiliary Organs: An Ethics of the Extended Mind
- 7 Must We Burn Virilio? The App and the Human System
- 8 The App as an Extension of Man's Desires
- 9 "Text and Walk without Fear": Apps and the Experience of Transparency
- III Economics
- 10 App Worker
- 11 Dare et Capere: Virtuous Mesh and a Targeting Diagram
- 12 Construction of the App Economy in the Networked Korean Society
- 13 What China's Netizens Want: Building Tech Ecosystems in the World's Toughest Market
- IV Remediations
- 14 The Language of Media Software
- 15 Apps as "Charming Junkware"?
- 16 The Spinoza Lens-Grinder App
- 17 From the Digital to the Tentacular, or From iPods to Cephalopods: Apps, Traps, and Entrées-without-Exit
- 18 To Make You Completely Present in the Moment
- 19 Nonlinear Music Navigates the Earth
- Contributors
- Index
- Color Plates.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-32080-0
- 0-262-32079-7
- OCLC:
- 891398078
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