Programmed visions software and memory

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that cycles of obsolescence & 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
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press 2011
Series:Software studies
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Collection: MIT Press eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Description
Summary:Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that cycles of obsolescence & 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:xiii, 239 pages illustrations
ISBN:9780262295215
0262295210