Cutting Code : Software and Sociality

Name: Cutting Code
Brand: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
SKU: 9780820478234
Price: 5250 KES
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ISBN: 9780820478234

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by Adrian Mackenzie

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Digital Formations

ISBN-10 0820478237

ISBN-13 9780820478234

Edition New

Publisher Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Imprint Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 22nd, 2006

Print length 215 Pages

Weight 344 grams

Dimensions 15.20 x 25.40 x 1.50 cms

Product Classification: Sociology & anthropology Sociology and anthropology Software Engineering

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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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