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Chun Wendy Hui Kyong <1969-> |
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Titolo |
Programmed visions : software and memory / / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-25853-6 |
9786613258533 |
0-262-29521-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (254 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Computer software - Development - Social aspects |
Software architecture - Social aspects |
Computer software - Human factors |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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