Fun and Software

Exploring Pleasure, Paradox and Pain in Computing

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

AvOlga Goriunova,UK) Goriunova, Olga (University of Warwick

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Fun and Software offers the untold story of fun as constitutive of the culture and aesthetics of computing. Fun in computing is a mode of thinking, making and experiencing. It invokes and convolutes the question of rationalism and logical reason, addresses the sensibilities and experience of computation and attests to its creative drives. By exploring topics as diverse as the pleasure and pain of the programmer, geek wit, affects of play and coding as a bodily pursuit of the unique in recursive structures, Fun and Software helps construct a different point of entry to the understanding of software as culture. Fun is a form of production that touches on the foundations of formal logic and precise notation as well as rhetoric, exhibiting connections between computing and paradox, politics and aesthetics. From the formation of the discipline of programming as an outgrowth of pure mathematics to its manifestation in contemporary and contradictory forms such as gaming, data analysis and art, fun is a powerful force that continues to shape our life with software as it becomes the key mechanism of contemporary society.Including chapters from leading scholars, programmers and artists, Fun and Software makes a major contribution to the field of software studies and opens the topic of software to some of the most pressing concerns in contemporary theory.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-10-23
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt577 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBloomsbury 3PL
Antal sidor296
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781623560942

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction – Olga Goriunova, University of Warwick, UKTechnology, Logistics and Logic: Rethinking the Problem of Fun in Software - Andrew Goffey, University of Nottingham, UKBend Sinister: Monstrosity and Normative Effect in Computational Practice - Simon Yuill, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Always One Bit More, Computing and the Experience of Ambiguity - Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths, University of London, UKDo Algorithms Have Fun? On Completion, Indeterminacy and Autonomy in Computation - Luciana Parisi and M. Beatrice Fazi, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK useR!: Aggression, Alterity and Unbound Affects in Statistical Programming - Adrian Mackenzie, Lancaster University, UK Do (not) Repeat Yourself - Michael Murtaugh, Piet Zwart Institute, The NetherlandsNot Just For Fun - Geoff Cox, Aarhus University, Denmark, and Alex McLean, University of Leeds, UKFun is a Battlefield: Software between Enjoyment and Obsession - Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Andrew Lison, Brown University, USAMonopoly and The Logic of Sensation in Spacewar! - Christian Ulrik Andersen, Aarhus University, DenmarkHuman-Computer Interaction, a Sci-Fi discipline? - Brigitte Kaltenbacher, Goldsmiths College, UKA Fun Aesthetic and Art – Annet Dekker, Piet Zwart Institute, The Netherlands Material Imagination: on the Avant-Gardes, Time and Computation - Olga Goriunova, University of Warwick, UKNotes on Contributors

A serious materialist approach to software inevitably must confront the emotional character of programming, in all of its component parts, from the thrill of invention to obsession. It must also wrestle with entrenched notions that this craft is driven predominantly by a cool, calculated rationality. Long overdue, Fun and Software fulfills both requirements, providing an exquisite collection of delightful essays full of insight about the deep pleasures and frustrations feeding the inventive process of coding.