Federica Frabetti is senior lecturer in communication, media and culture at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She has a diverse professional and academic background in the humanities and ICT and has published numerous articles on the cultural study of technology, digital media and software studies, cultural theory, and gender and queer theory.

• Acknowledgments / Introduction / 1. From Technical Tools to Originary Technicity: The Concept of Technology in Western Philosophy / 2. Language, Writing and Code: Towards a Deconstructive Reading of Software / 3. Software as Material Inscription: The Beginnings of Software Engineering / 4. From the Cathedral to the Bazaar: Software as the Unexpected / 5. Writing the Printed Circuit: For a Genealogy of Code / Conclusion: The Unforeseen Consequeneses of Technology / Bibliography / Index

This book represents a landmark in the field of techno-cultural studies. Frabetti's deconstructive reading of software and code reveals their key role within the scriptorium of contemporary culture.This is a highly original contribution to understanding the writing/machine relationship and will give pause for thought amongst all those who suppose that the technics of inscription can be studied independently of the question of language itself.

Federica Frabetti is senior lecturer in communication, media and culture at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She has a diverse professional and academic background in the humanities and ICT and has published numerous articles on the cultural study of technology, digital media and software studies, cultural theory, and gender and queer theory.

• Acknowledgments / Introduction / 1. From Technical Tools to Originary Technicity: The Concept of Technology in Western Philosophy / 2. Language, Writing and Code: Towards a Deconstructive Reading of Software / 3. Software as Material Inscription: The Beginnings of Software Engineering / 4. From the Cathedral to the Bazaar: Software as the Unexpected / 5. Writing the Printed Circuit: For a Genealogy of Code / Conclusion: The Unforeseen Consequeneses of Technology / Bibliography / Index

This book represents a landmark in the field of techno-cultural studies. Frabetti's deconstructive reading of software and code reveals their key role within the scriptorium of contemporary culture.This is a highly original contribution to understanding the writing/machine relationship and will give pause for thought amongst all those who suppose that the technics of inscription can be studied independently of the question of language itself.

Federica Frabetti is senior lecturer in communication, media and culture at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She has a diverse professional and academic background in the humanities and ICT and has published numerous articles on the cultural study of technology, digital media and software studies, cultural theory, and gender and queer theory.

• Acknowledgments / Introduction / 1. From Technical Tools to Originary Technicity: The Concept of Technology in Western Philosophy / 2. Language, Writing and Code: Towards a Deconstructive Reading of Software / 3. Software as Material Inscription: The Beginnings of Software Engineering / 4. From the Cathedral to the Bazaar: Software as the Unexpected / 5. Writing the Printed Circuit: For a Genealogy of Code / Conclusion: The Unforeseen Consequeneses of Technology / Bibliography / Index

This book represents a landmark in the field of techno-cultural studies. Frabetti's deconstructive reading of software and code reveals their key role within the scriptorium of contemporary culture.This is a highly original contribution to understanding the writing/machine relationship and will give pause for thought amongst all those who suppose that the technics of inscription can be studied independently of the question of language itself.