LEADER 03305oam 22005534a 450 001 9910332056203321 005 20240201194637.0 010 $a1-950192-34-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000008789183 035 $a(OCoLC)1126175234 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse81971 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32143 035 $a(oapen)doab32143 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008789183 100 $a20190624d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurm|#||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMoonbit$fJames E. Dobson, Rena J. Mosteirin 205 $a1st ed.. 210 $aBrooklyn, NY$cpunctum books$d2019 210 1$aSanta Barbara :$cPunctum Books,$d2019. 210 4$dİ2019. 215 $a1 online resource (144 pages) $cPDF, digital file(s) 311 08$a1-950192-33-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 $a"MOONBIT is a hybrid work comprised of experimental poetry and a critical theory of the poetics and politics of computer code. It offers an extended intellectual and creative engagement with the affordances of computer software through multiple readings and re-writings of a singular text, the source code of the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer or the "AGC." MOONBIT re-marks and remixes the code that made space travel possible. Half of this book is erasure poetry that uses the AGC code as the source text, building on the premise that code can speak beyond its functional purpose. When we think about the 1960s U.S. space program and obscure scientific computer code, we might not first think about the Watts riots, Shakespeare, Winnie the Pooh, T.S. Eliot, or scatological jokes. Yet these cultural references and influences along with many more are scattered throughout the body of the code that powered the compact digital computer that successfully guided astronauts to the Moon and back and in July of 1969. MOONBIT unravels and rewrites the many embedded cultural references that were braided together within the language resources of mid-century computer code. MOONBIT also provides a gentle, non-expert introduction to the text of the AGC code, to digital poetics, and to critical code studies. Outlining a capacious interpretive practice, MOONBIT takes up all manner of imaginative decodings and recodings of this code. It introduces some of the major existing approaches to the study of code and culture while provide multiple readings of the source code along with an explanation and theorization of the way in which the code works, as both a computational and a cultural text"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aPoetry by individual poets$2bicssc 606 $aAstronautics$2bicssc 610 $aApollo Mission 610 $adigital poetics 610 $acomputer code 610 $aexperimental poetry 610 $acultural theory 610 $adigital humanities 610 $atechnology 615 7$aPoetry by individual poets 615 7$aAstronautics 676 $a811.6 700 $aDobson$b James E.$0962746 702 $aMosteirin$b Rena J. 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910332056203321 996 $aMoonbit$92183007 997 $aUNINA