{"product_id":"programmed-visions-wendy-hui-kyong-chun-9780262518512","title":"Programmed Visions: Software and Memory","description":"\u003cb\u003eA theoretical examination of the surprising emergence of software as a guiding metaphor for our neoliberal world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew media thrives on cycles of obsolescence and renewal: from celebrations of cyber-everything to Y2K, from the dot-com bust to the next big things--mobile mobs, Web 3.0, cloud computing. In\u003ci\u003e Programmed Visions\u003c\/i\u003e, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that these cycles result in part from the ways in which new media encapsulates a logic of programmability. New media proliferates \"programmed visions,\" which seek to shape and predict--even embody--a future based on past data. These programmed visions have also made computers, based on metaphor, metaphors for metaphor itself, for a general logic of substitutability. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChun argues that the clarity offered by software as metaphor should make us pause, because software also engenders a profound sense of ignorance: who knows what lurks behind our smiling interfaces, behind the objects we click and manipulate? The combination of what can be seen and not seen, known (knowable) and not known--its separation of interface from algorithm and software from hardware--makes it a powerful metaphor for everything we believe is invisible yet generates visible, logical effects, from genetics to the invisible hand of the market, from ideology to culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wendy Hui Kyong Chun\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262518511\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262518512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/11\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 7.06w x 0.41d","brand":"Wendy Hui Kyong Chun","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44074712203519,"sku":"9780262518512","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_530823a3-1095-4ffb-ae6e-8fb00a091767.jpg?v=1685455334","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/programmed-visions-wendy-hui-kyong-chun-9780262518512","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}