Fun and Software: Exploring Pleasure, Paradox and Pain in Computing by Olga Gori

Description: Fun and Software by Olga Goriunova 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography 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. Table of Contents AcknowledgementsIntroduction – Olga Goriunova, University of Warwick, UKTechnology, Logistics and Logic: Rethinking the Problem of Fun in Software - Andrew Goffey, University of Nottingham, UKBend Sinister: Monstrosity and Normative Effect in Computational Practice - Simon Yuill, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Always One Bit More, Computing and the Experience of Ambiguity - Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths, University of London, UKDo Algorithms Have Fun? On Completion, Indeterminacy and Autonomy in Computation - Luciana Parisi and M. Beatrice Fazi, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK useR!: Aggression, Alterity and Unbound Affects in Statistical Programming - Adrian Mackenzie, Lancaster University, UK Do (not) Repeat Yourself - Michael Murtaugh, Piet Zwart Institute, The NetherlandsNot Just For Fun - Geoff Cox, Aarhus University, Denmark, and Alex McLean, University of Leeds, UKFun is a Battlefield: Software between Enjoyment and Obsession - Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Andrew Lison, Brown University, USAMonopoly and The Logic of Sensation in Spacewar! - Christian Ulrik Andersen, Aarhus University, DenmarkHuman-Computer Interaction, a Sci-Fi discipline? - Brigitte Kaltenbacher, Goldsmiths College, UKA Fun Aesthetic and Art – Annet Dekker, Piet Zwart Institute, The NetherlandsMaterial Imagination: on the Avant-Gardes, Time and Computation - Olga Goriunova, University of Warwick, UKNotes on Contributors Review A serious materialist approach to software inevitably must confront the emotional character of programming, in all of its component parts, from the thrill of invention to obsession. It must also wrestle with entrenched notions that this craft is driven predominantly by a cool, calculated rationality. Long overdue, Fun and Software fulfills both requirements, providing an exquisite collection of delightful essays full of insight about the deep pleasures and frustrations feeding the inventive process of coding. * Gabriella Coleman, Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy, McGill University, Canada *Fun and Software is a unique and very welcome addition to the existing work in software studies and history of computing. The book uncovers intense emotions at work throughout computing cultures, with geeks, game players, inventors of computers and other characters making appearances. The range of covered topics is impressive, and the thinking and writing in this book are superb. * Lev Manovich, Professor of Computer Science, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA, and Director, Software Studies Lab * Promotional Software is taken out of its remote professional corner to be looked at as a field of practice guided by emotion, experiment and paradox. Review Quote "A serious materialist approach to software inevitably must confront the emotional character of programming, in all of its component parts, from the thrill of invention to obsession. It must also wrestle with entrenched notions that this craft is driven predominantly by a cool, calculated rationality. Long overdue, Fun and Software fulfills both requirements, providing an exquisite collection of delightful essays full of insight about the deep pleasures and frustrations feeding the inventive process of coding." -- Gabriella Coleman, Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy, McGill University, Canada " Fun and Software is a unique and very welcome addition to the existing work in software studies and history of computing. The book uncovers intense emotions at work throughout computing cultures, with geeks, game players, inventors of computers and other characters making appearances. The range of covered topics is impressive, and the thinking and writing in this book are superb." -- Lev Manovich, Professor of Computer Science, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA, and Director, Software Studies Lab Promotional "Headline" Software is taken out of its remote professional corner to be looked at as a field of practice guided by emotion, experiment and paradox. Feature Establishes a solid foundation for the discussion of the aesthetics and cultures of software Details ISBN1501318284 Pages 296 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Year 2016 ISBN-10 1501318284 ISBN-13 9781501318283 Format Paperback Short Title FUN & SOFTWARE Language English Media Book Author Olga Goriunova Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USA Subtitle Exploring Pleasure, Paradox and Pain in Computing Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Edited by Olga Goriunova Illustrations 15 bw illus Publication Date 2016-05-19 Affiliation University of Warwick, UK UK Release Date 2016-05-19 NZ Release Date 2016-05-19 US Release Date 2016-05-19 Birth 1907 Death 1990 Position Author Qualifications PH D DEWEY 302.231 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2016-05-18 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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