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Programmed visions : software and memory / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong, 1969-
- Series:
- Software studies (Cambridge, Mass.)
- Software studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Computer software--Development--Social aspects.
- Computer software.
- Software architecture--Social aspects.
- Software architecture.
- Computer software--Human factors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that cycles of obsolescence & renewal result in part from the ways in which new media encapsulates a logic of programmability. In seeking to embody a future based on past data, new media becomes a metaphor for metaphor itself.
- Contents:
- Cover ; Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; Introduction; You; I Invisibly Visible, Visibly Invisible; 1 On Sourcery and Source Codes; Computers that Roar; 2 Daemonic Interfaces, Empowering Obfuscations; II Regenerating Archives; 3 Order from Order, or Life According to Software; The Undead of Information; 4 Always Already There, or Software as Memory; Conclusion; Epilogue; You, Again; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-25853-6
- 9786613258533
- 0-262-29521-0
- OCLC:
- 751978346
- Publisher Number:
- 9786613258533
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