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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Format: | eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press
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Edition: | 1st ed |
Series: | Software studies (Cambridge, Mass.)
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009863823006719 |
Table of Contents:
- 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