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MacKenzie, Adrian

 
9780820478234: Cutting Code: Software and Sociality (30) (Digital Formations)
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ISBN 10: 0820478237 ISBN 13: 9780820478234
Editorial: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2006

Sinopsis

Software has often been marginalized in accounts of digital cultures and network societies. Although software is everywhere, it is hard to say what it actually is. Cutting Code: Software and Sociality is one of the first books to treat software seriously as a full-blown cultural process and as a subtly powerful material in contemporary communication. From deCSS to Java, from Linux to Extreme Programming, this book analyses software artworks, operating systems, commercial products, infrastructures, and programming practices. It explores social forms, identities, materialities, and power relations associated with software, and it asks how software provokes the re-thinking of production, consumption and distribution as entwined cultural processes. Cutting Code argues that analysis of code as a mosaic of algorithms, protocols, infrastructures, and programming conventions offers valuable insights into how contemporary social formations invent new kinds of personhood and new ways of acting.

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Acerca del autor

Adrian Mackenzie researches and teaches in the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University. He has degrees in science and philosophy, and received his Ph.D in philosophy from Sydney University. In addition to professional experience as a software developer, he is author of Transductions: Bodies and Machines at Speed (2002), and numerous scholarly articles.

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Editorial
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Año de publicación
2006
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0820478237
ISBN 13 
9780820478234
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
226
Contacto del fabricante
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