| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Software studies
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Software studies (Cambridge, Mass.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Software, a supersensible sensible thing -- You -- Invisibly visible, visibly invisible. On sourcery and source codes -- Computers that roar -- Daemonic interfaces, empowering obfuscations -- Regenerating archives. Order from order, or life according to software -- The undead of information -- Always already there, or software as memory -- Conclusion: In medias res -- Epilogue: In medias race -- You, again. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Computer software -- Development -- Social aspects.
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Computer software -- Development -- Social aspects. |
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Computer software -- Development. |
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Software architecture -- Social aspects.
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Software architecture. |
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Social aspects. |
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Computer software -- Human factors.
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Computer software -- Human factors. |
| Indexed Term |
DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/Software Studies |
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SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies |
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SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong, 1969- Programmed visions. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011 9780262015424 (DLC) 2010036044 (OCoLC)664450686 |
| ISBN |
9780262295215 (electronic book) |
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0262295210 (electronic book) |
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1283258536 |
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9781283258531 |
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9786613258533 |
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6613258539 |
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9780262015424 |
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0262015420 |
| Standard No. |
9786613258533 |
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