{"product_id":"plain-text-dennis-tenen-9781503602281","title":"Plain Text: The Poetics of Computation","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book challenges the ways we read, write, store, and retrieve information in the digital age. Computers--from electronic books to smart phones--play an active role in our social lives. Our technological choices thus entail theoretical and political commitments. Dennis Tenen takes up today's strange enmeshing of humans, texts, and machines to argue that our most ingrained intuitions about texts are profoundly alienated from the physical contexts of their intellectual production. Drawing on a range of primary sources from both literary theory and software engineering, he makes a case for a more transparent practice of human-computer interaction. \u003ci\u003ePlain Text\u003c\/i\u003e is thus a rallying call, a frame of mind as much as a file format. It reminds us, ultimately, that our devices also encode specific modes of governance and control that must remain available to interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dennis Tenen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1503602281\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503602281\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/20\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Dennis Tenen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935272501503,"sku":"9781503602281","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_9e5ef8e6-495d-47fb-ae9e-349f21f2120d.jpg?v=1681418865","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/plain-text-dennis-tenen-9781503602281","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}