Bibliograph

Programmed visions, software and memory, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Type

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Programmed visions, software and memory, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Programmed visions

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

751978346

Responsibility statement

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Series statement

Software studies

Sub title

software and memory

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

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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