Programmed visions: software and memory
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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- Full title :Programmed visions : software and memory / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun.
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.
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- Publication Date:©2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):MIT Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780262295215, 0262295210, 1283258536, 9781283258531, 9786613258533, 6613258539
- oclc:ocn751978346
- LC Classification:QA76.76.D47
- Dewey Decimal:005.1
Table of 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.
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