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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong, 1969- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press ©2011.
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