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Cutting Code: Software and Sociality

Cutting Code: Software and Sociality

MacKenzie, Adrian
Jones, Steve

Paperback

Series: Digital Formations, Book 30

PhilosophyAnthropologyGeneral Computers

ISBN10: 0820478237
ISBN13: 9780820478234
Publisher: Peter Lang Us
Published: Mar 22 2006
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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