The phrase?spatial turns? signals the growing importance of space as an analytical as well as representational category for culture. The volume addresses such emerging modes of inquiry by bringing together, for the first time, essays that engage with spatial turns, spatiality, a…
Code, space: software and everyday life
by Kitchin, Rob, Dodge, Martin
fromSoftware studies
Code/space: software and everyday life
by Kitchin, Rob, Dodge, Martin
fromSoftware studies
After little more than half a century since its initial development, computer code is extensively and intimately woven into the fabric of our everyday lives. From the digital alarm clock that wakes us to the air traffic control system that guides our plane in for a landing, soft…
Code/space: software and everyday life
by Kitchin, Rob, Dodge, Martin
fromSoftware studies
An analysis of the ways that software creates new spatialities in everyday life, from supermarket checkout lines to airline flight paths.
"This book engages the notions of place and displacement as heuristic devices for literary analysis of Borges's and Cortazar's narratives. It maps out these authors' visions of place and displacement in some of their most famous texts; locates the 'place' of Borges's texts withi…
"Cine-scapes explores the relationship between urban space, architecture and the moving image. While an impressive amount of research has been done with regards to the study of architecture portrayed in film, this book will offer a new perspective. There is little doubt that fil…
