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Software Studies: A Lexicon
by Matthew Fuller
 
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.
 
About the Editor:
 
Matthew Fuller is David Gee Reader in Digital Media at the Centre for 
Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London. 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.
 
April 2008
The MIT Press
A Leonardo Book
ISBN:0-262-06274-7
400 pp., 13 illus.
 
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