EAN: 9780820478234

CUTTING CODE - ADRIAN MACKENZIE KARTONIERT (TB)

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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