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Programmed Visions: Software and Memory

Programmed Visions: Software and Memory

Programmed Visions: Software and Memory Paperback / softback - 2013

by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

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Paperback / softback. New. A theoretical examination of the surprising emergence of software as a guiding metaphor for our neoliberal world.
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  • Title Programmed Visions: Software and Memory
  • Author Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 254
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher MIT Press
  • Publication date 2013-01-11
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780262518512
  • ISBN 9780262518512 / 0262518511
  • Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.99 x 7.06 x 0.41 in (22.83 x 17.93 x 1.04 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Computers - Languages / Programming
  • Dewey Decimal Code 005.1
  • Quantity available 10

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A theoretical examination of the surprising emergence of software as a guiding metaphor for our neoliberal world.

New media thrives on cycles of obsolescence and renewal: from celebrations of cyber-everything to Y2K, from the dot-com bust to the next big things--mobile mobs, Web 3.0, cloud computing. In Programmed Visions, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that these cycles result in part from the ways in which new media encapsulates a logic of programmability. New media proliferates "programmed visions," which seek to shape and predict--even embody--a future based on past data. These programmed visions have also made computers, based on metaphor, metaphors for metaphor itself, for a general logic of substitutability.

Chun argues that the clarity offered by software as metaphor should make us pause, because software also engenders a profound sense of ignorance: who knows what lurks behind our smiling interfaces, behind the objects we click and manipulate? The combination of what can be seen and not seen, known (knowable) and not known--its separation of interface from algorithm and software from hardware--makes it a powerful metaphor for everything we believe is invisible yet generates visible, logical effects, from genetics to the invisible hand of the market, from ideology to culture.

About the author

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, who has studied both systems design and English literature, is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She is the author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics and Programmed Visions: Software and Memory, both published by the MIT Press.

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