Programmed Visions: Software and Memory

by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Book Overview

A theoretical examination of the surprising emergence of software as a guiding metaphor for our neoliberal world.

New media thrives on cycles of obsolescence and renewal: from celebrations of cyber-everything to Y2K, from the dot-com bust to the next big things--mobile mobs, Web 3.0, cloud computing. In Programmed Visions, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that these cycles result in part from the ways in which new media encapsulates a logic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262518511
• ISBN13: 9780262518512
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher