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How Pac-Man Eats

by Noah Wardrip-Fruin

92,75€ + 10% CARD

 "This book explains that the tools and concepts we use for making games are intimately connected to what games can and do mean"--
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Critical Code Studies

by Mark C. Marino

79,50€ + 10% CARD

 An argument that we must read code for more than what it does—we must consider what it means.Computer source code has become part of popular discourse. Code is read not only by programmers but by lawyers, artists, pundits, reporters, political activists, and literary scholars; it is used in political debate, works of art, popular entertainment, and historical accounts. In this book, Mark Marino argues that code means more than merely what it does; we must also consider what it means. We need to learn to read code critically. Marino presents a series of case studies—ranging from the Climategate scandal to a hactivist art project on the US-Mexico border—as lessons in critical code reading.Marino shows how, in the process of its circulation, the meaning of code changes beyond its functional role to include connotations and implications, opening it up to interpretation and inference—and misinterpretation and reappropriation. The Climategate controversy, for example, stemmed from a misreading of a bit of placeholder code as a "smoking gun" that supposedly proved fabrication of climate data. A poetry generator created by Nick Montfort was remixed and reimagined by other poets, and subject to literary interpretation.Each case study begins by presenting a small and self-contained passage of code—by coders as disparate as programming pioneer Grace Hopper and philosopher Friedrich Kittler—and an accessible explanation of its context and functioning. Marino then explores its extra-functional significance, demonstrating a variety of interpretive approaches.
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Software Arts

by Warren Sack

106,00€ + 10% CARD

 An alternative history of software that places the liberal arts at the very center of software''s evolution.In The Software Arts, Warren Sack offers an alternative history of computing that places the arts at the very center of software''s evolution. Tracing the origins of software to eighteenth-century French encyclopedists'' step-by-step descriptions of how things were made in the workshops of artists and artisans, Sack shows that programming languages are the offspring of an effort to describe the mechanical arts in the language of the liberal arts. Sack offers a reading of the texts of computing—code, algorithms, and technical papers—that emphasizes continuity between prose and programs. He translates concepts and categories from the liberal and mechanical arts—including logic, rhetoric, grammar, learning, algorithm, language, and simulation—into terms of computer science and then considers their further translation into popular culture, where they circulate as forms of digital life. He considers, among other topics, the "arithmetization" of knowledge that presaged digitization; today''s multitude of logics; the history of demonstration, from deduction to newer forms of persuasion; and the post-Chomsky absence of meaning in grammar. With The Software Arts, Sack invites artists and humanists to see how their ideas are at the root of software and invites computer scientists to envision themselves as artists and humanists.
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Speaking Code - Coding As Aesthetic And Political Expression

by Alex Mclean e Geoff Cox

106,00€ + 10% CARD

 The aesthetic and political implications of working with code as procedure, expression, and action.
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Expressive Processing - Digital Fictions, Computer Games, And Software Studies - Digital Fictions, Computer Games, And Software Studies

66,78€ + 10% CARD

 From the complex city-planning game SimCity to the virtual therapist Eliza: how computational processes open possibilities for understanding and creating digital media.
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Programmed Visions - Software And Memory

by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

79,50€ + 10% CARD

 A theoretical examination of the surprising emergence of software as a guiding metaphor for our neoliberal world.
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Imaginary App

84,80€ + 10% CARD

 The mobile app as technique and imaginary tool, offering a shortcut to instantaneous connection and entertainment.
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10 Print Chr$(205.5+Rnd(1)); : Goto 10

by Casey Reas, Ian Bogost, Jeremy Douglass, John Bell, Mark C. Marino, Mark Sample, Michael Mateas, Nick Montfort, Noah Vawter e Patsy Baudoin

47,70€ + 10% CARD

 A single line of code offers a way to understand the cultural context of computing.This book takes a single line of code-the extremely concise BASIC program for the Commodore 64 inscribed in the title-and uses it as a lens through which to consider the phenomenon of creative computing and the way computer programs exist in culture. The authors of this collaboratively written book treat code not as merely functional but as a text-in the case of 10 PRINT, a text that appeared in many different printed sources-that yields a story about its making, its purpose, its assumptions, and more. They consider randomness and regularity in computing and art, the maze in culture, the popular BASIC programming language, and the highly influential Commodore 64 computer.
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Coding Literacy - How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing

by Annette Vee

92,75€ + 10% CARD

 How the theoretical tools of literacy help us understand programming in its historical, social and conceptual contexts.The message from educators, the tech community, and even politicians is clear: everyone should learn to code. To emphasize the universality and importance of computer programming, promoters of coding for everyone often invoke the concept of "literacy," drawing parallels between reading and writing code and reading and writing text. In this book, Annette Vee examines the coding-as-literacy analogy and argues that it can be an apt rhetorical frame. The theoretical tools of literacy help us understand programming beyond a technical level, and in its historical, social, and conceptual contexts. Viewing programming from the perspective of literacy and literacy from the perspective of programming, she argues, shifts our understandings of both. Computer programming becomes part of an array of communication skills important in everyday life, and literacy, augmented by programming, becomes more capacious.Vee examines the ways that programming is linked with literacy in coding literacy campaigns, considering the ideologies that accompany this coupling, and she looks at how both writing and programming encode and distribute information. She explores historical parallels between writing and programming, using the evolution of mass textual literacy to shed light on the trajectory of code from military and government infrastructure to large-scale businesses to personal use. Writing and coding were institutionalized, domesticated, and then established as a basis for literacy. Just as societies demonstrated a "literate mentality" regardless of the literate status of individuals, Vee argues, a "computational mentality" is now emerging even though coding is still a specialized skill.
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Stack - On Software And Sovereignty

by Benjamin H. Bratton

145,75€ + 10% CARD

 A comprehensive political and design theory of planetary-scale computation proposing that The Stack—an accidental megastructure—is both a technological apparatus and a model for a new geopolitical architecture.What has planetary-scale computation done to our geopolitical realities? It takes different forms at different scales—from energy and mineral sourcing and subterranean cloud infrastructure to urban software and massive universal addressing systems; from interfaces drawn by the augmentation of the hand and eye to users identified by self—quantification and the arrival of legions of sensors, algorithms, and robots. Together, how do these distort and deform modern political geographies and produce new territories in their own image?In The Stack, Benjamin Bratton proposes that these different genres of computation—smart grids, cloud platforms, mobile apps, smart cities, the Internet of Things, automation—can be seen not as so many species evolving on their own, but as forming a coherent whole: an accidental megastructure called The Stack that is both a computational apparatus and a new governing architecture. We are inside The Stack and it is inside of us. In an account that is both theoretical and technical, drawing on political philosophy, architectural theory, and software studies, Bratton explores six layers of The Stack: Earth, Cloud, City, Address, Interface, User. Each is mapped on its own terms and understood as a component within the larger whole built from hard and soft systems intermingling—not only computational forms but also social, human, and physical forces. This model, informed by the logic of the multilayered structure of protocol "stacks," in which network technologies operate within a modular and vertical order, offers a comprehensive image of our emerging infrastructure and a platform for its ongoing reinvention. The Stack is an interdisciplinary design brief for a new geopolitics that works with and for planetary-scale computation. Interweaving the continental, urban, and perceptual scales, it shows how we can better build, dwell within, communicate with, and govern our worlds.thestack.org
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Code/Space - Software And Everyday Life

by Martin Dodge e Rob Kitchin

106,00€ + 10% CARD

 An analysis of the ways that software creates new spatialities in everyday life, from supermarket checkout lines to airline flight paths.
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Consequences Of Language - From Primary To Enhanced Intersubjectivity

by Jack Sidnell e N. J. Enfield

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Live Coding - A User'S Manual

by Alan F. Blackwell e Emma Cocker

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Critical Code Studies

by Mark C. (Professor, University Of Southern California) Marino

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The Software Arts

by Warren (Chair + Professor, University Of California, Santa Cruz) Sack

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Mindmade Politics - The Cognitive Roots Of International Climate Governance

by Manjana (Assistant Professor, Purdue University) Milkoreit

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 How integrating cognitive theories and international relations scholarship can yield valuable insights into the effectiveness of climate negotiations.
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Truth In Husserl, Heidegger, And The Frankfurt School - Critical Retrieval

by Lambert (Professor Of Philosophy, Institute For Christian Studies) Zuidervaart

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 An innovative, ambitious, tradition-crossing study drawing on the work of Husserl, Heidegger, Horkheimer, Adorno, and Habermas to propose a new and transformative concept of truth.
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Coding Literacy - How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing

by Annette (Assistant Professor, University Of Pittsburgh) Vee

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The Stack - On Software And Sovereignty

by Benjamin H. (Associate Professor, University Of California, San Diego) Bratton

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Thinking Things Through - An Introduction To Philosophical Issues And Achievements

by Clark (Carnegie Mellon University) Glymour

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10 Print Chr$(205.5+Rnd(1)); : Goto 10

by Casey (Associate Professor, University Of California, Los Angeles) Reas, Ian (Professor, Georgia Institute Of Technology) Bogost, Jeremy (Postdoctoral Researcher, University Of California, Santa Barbara) Douglass, John (Adjunct Lecturer, University Of Maine) Bell, Mark (Davidson College) Sample, Mark C. (Professor, University Of Southern California) Marino, Michael (University Of California, Santa Cruz) Mateas, Nick (Associate Professor Of Digital Media, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology) Montfort, Noah (Ph.D. Candidate, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology) Vawter e Patsy (Research Affiliate, Mit Libraries) Baudoin

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The Imaginary App

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 The mobile app as technique and imaginary tool, offering a shortcut to instantaneous connection and entertainment.
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Code/Space - Software And Everyday Life

by Martin (Senior Lecturer, The University Of Manchester) Dodge e Rob (National University Of Ireland Maynooth) Kitchin

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Programmed Visions - Software And Memory

by Wendy Hui Kyong (Professor, Brown University) Chun

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