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from Leonardo Book Series and The MIT Press<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span class="copyhead1"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">Software Studies: A
Lexicon<o:p></o:p></span></span>
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<span class="copyhead1"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">by Matthew Fuller<o:p></o:p></span></span>
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style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span>
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<span class="copyhead1"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></span>
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style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span>
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<span class="copyhead1"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">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. <o:p></o:p></span></span>
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style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span>
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<span class="copyhead1"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">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. <o:p></o:p></span></span>
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style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span>
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<span class="copyhead1"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">About the Editor:<o:p></o:p></span></span>
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<span class="copyhead1"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span>
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<span class="copyhead1"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">Matthew Fuller is David
Gee
Reader in Digital Media at the Centre for Cultural Studies, <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Goldsmiths</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType>,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">London</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>. He is
the author of Media
Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture (MIT Press,
2005) and Behind
the Blip: Essays on the Culture of Software. <o:p></o:p></span></span>
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style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span>
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<span class="copyhead1"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">April 2008<o:p></o:p></span></span>
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<span class="copyhead1"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">The MIT Press<o:p></o:p></span></span>
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<span class="copyhead1"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">A Leonardo Book<o:p></o:p></span></span>
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<span class="copyhead1"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">ISBN:0-262-06274-7<o:p></o:p></span></span>
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<span class="copyhead1"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">400 pp., 13 illus. <o:p></o:p></span></span>
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