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.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2011.
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| Series: | Software studies
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9780262295215 0262295210 1283258536 9781283258531 9786613258533 6613258539 |
| DOI: | 10.7551/mitpress/9780262015424.001.0001 |