The Cultural Logic of Computation

by David Golumbia

Advocates of computers make sweeping claims for their inherently transformative power: new and different from previous technologies, they are sure to resolve many of our existing social problems, and perhaps even to cause a positive political revolution.

In The Cultural Logic of Computation, David Golumbia, who worked as a software designer for more than ten years, confronts this orthodoxy, arguing instead that computers are cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674032926
• ISBN13: 9780674032927
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.1"