Fun and Software: Exploring Pleasure, Paradox and Pain in Computing

Goriunova, Olga (Ed.)

ISBN 10: 1501318284 / ISBN 13: 9781501318283

Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

About this Item

This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:9781501318283.

Seller Inventory # 4125975

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fun and Software: Exploring Pleasure, Paradox and Pain in Computing
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501318284
• ISBN 13: 9781501318283
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 500 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Computing

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Olga Goriunova is an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, The University of Warwick, UK. She is author of Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet (2012) and a co-founder of the Computational Culture journal.