Programmed visions : software and memory /

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that cycles of obsolescence and 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:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
Series:Software studies
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that cycles of obsolescence and 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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN:9780262295215
0262295210
1283258536
9781283258531
9786613258533
6613258539
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262015424.001.0001