Software Studies: A Lexicon

Matthew Fuller

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2008-05-01
  • 售價: $1,160
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 352
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 0262062747
  • ISBN-13: 9780262062749
  • 相關分類: 資訊科學軟體工程
  • 立即出貨(限量) (庫存=3)

商品描述

This collection of short expository, critical, and speculative texts offers a field guide to the cultural, political, social, and aesthetic impact of software. Computing and digital media are essential to the way we work and live, and much has been said about their influence. But the very material of software has often been left invisible. In Software Studies, computer scientists, artists, designers, cultural theorists, programmers, and others from a range of disciplines each take on a key topic in the understanding of software and the work that surrounds it. These include algorithms; logical structures; ways of thinking and doing that leak out of the domain of logic and into everyday life; the value and aesthetic judgments built into computing; programming's own subcultures; and the tightly formulated building blocks that work to make, name, multiply, control, and interweave reality.

The growing importance of software requires a new kind of cultural theory that can understand the politics of pixels or the poetry of a loop and engage in the microanalysis of everyday digital objects. The contributors to Software Studies are both literate in computing (and involved in some way in the production of software) and active in making and theorizing culture. Software Studies offers not only studies of software but proposes an agenda for a discipline that sees software as an object of study from new perspectives.

Contributors:
Alison Adam, Wilfried Hou Je Bek, Morten Breinbjerg, Ted Byfield, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Geoff Cox, Florian Cramer, Cecile Crutzen, Marco Deseriis, Ron Eglash, Matthew Fuller, Andrew Goffey, Steve Goodman, Olga Goriunova, Graham Harwood, Friedrich Kittler, Erna Kotkamp, Joasia Krysa, Adrian Mackenzie, Lev Manovich, Michael Mateas, Nick Montfort, Michael Murtaugh, Jussi Parikka, Søren Pold, Derek Robinson, Warren Sack, Grzesiek Sedek, Alexei Shulgin, Matti Tedre, Adrian Ward, Richard Wright, Simon Yuill.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本短篇的解說、評論和推測文集提供了一個關於軟體在文化、政治、社會和美學方面的影響的指南。計算和數位媒體對我們的工作和生活至關重要,對於它們的影響已經有很多討論。但是軟體的實質往往被忽視。在《軟體研究》中,計算機科學家、藝術家、設計師、文化理論家、程式設計師和其他各個領域的人們各自探討了軟體理解和相關工作的關鍵主題。這些主題包括算法、邏輯結構、從邏輯領域洩漏到日常生活中的思維和行為方式、內建於計算中的價值和美學判斷、程式設計的次文化,以及用於製造、命名、繁殖、控制和交織現實的緊密組織的基本組件。

軟體的日益重要性需要一種新型的文化理論,能夠理解像素的政治或迴圈的詩意,並從微觀分析日常數位物件。《軟體研究》的貢獻者們既精通計算(並以某種方式參與軟體的製作),又積極參與文化的創作和理論化。《軟體研究》不僅提供了對軟體的研究,還提出了一個從新的角度看待軟體作為研究對象的學科議程。

貢獻者包括:Alison Adam、Wilfried Hou Je Bek、Morten Breinbjerg、Ted Byfield、Wendy Hui Kyong Chun、Geoff Cox、Florian Cramer、Cecile Crutzen、Marco Deseriis、Ron Eglash、Matthew Fuller、Andrew Goffey、Steve Goodman、Olga Goriunova、Graham Harwood、Friedrich Kittler、Erna Kotkamp、Joasia Krysa、Adrian Mackenzie、Lev Manovich、Michael Mateas、Nick Montfort、Michael Murtaugh、Jussi Parikka、Søren Pold、Derek Robinson、Warren Sack、Grzesiek Sedek、Alexei Shulgin、Matti Tedre、Adrian Ward、Richard Wright、Simon Yuill。