Programmed visions : software and memory / / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
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| Autore: |
Chun Wendy Hui Kyong <1969->
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| Titolo: |
Programmed visions : software and memory / / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (254 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 005.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Computer software - Development - Social aspects |
| Software architecture - Social aspects | |
| Computer software - Human factors | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/Software Studies |
| SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies | |
| SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Programmed visions |
| ISBN: | 1-283-25853-6 |
| 9786613258533 | |
| 0-262-29521-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819191303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Software studies (Cambridge, Mass.)