Alice Walker / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom

• Record Nr.: UNISA990000395920203316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Yorl : Chelsea, c1989
• ISBN: 1-55546-314-2
• Descrizione fisica: VIII, 245 p. ; 24 cm
• Collana: Modern critical views
• Disciplina: 813.54
• Soggetti: Walker, Alice - Studi
• Collocazione: VII.4.B. 182(II i B 1166)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Programmed visions : software and memory / / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781666503321
• Autore: Chun Wendy Hui Kyong <1969->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011
• ISBN: 1-283-25853-6; 9786613258533; 0-262-29521-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 p.)
• Collana: Software studies
• Disciplina: 005.1
• Soggetti: Computer software - Development - Social aspects; Software architecture - Social aspects; Computer software - Human factors
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.