Cutting Code: Software and Sociality - Couverture souple

Mackenzie, Adrian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0820478237 ISBN 13 : 9780820478234

Editeur : Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2006

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

The Author : 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820478237
• ISBN 13: 9780820478234
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 215
• Coordonnées du fabricant: r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Allemagne