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…mehr
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.
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.
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Acknowledgements Introduction - Olga Goriunova University of Warwick UK Technology Logistics and Logic: Rethinking the Problem of Fun in Software - Andrew Goffey University of Nottingham UK Bend 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 UK Do 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 Netherlands Not Just For Fun - Geoff Cox Aarhus University Denmark and Alex McLean University of Leeds UK Fun is a Battlefield: Software between Enjoyment and Obsession - Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Andrew Lison Brown University USA Monopoly and The Logic of Sensation in Spacewar! - Christian Ulrik Andersen Aarhus University Denmark Human-Computer Interaction a Sci-Fi discipline? - Brigitte Kaltenbacher Goldsmiths College UK A Fun Aesthetic and Art - Annet Dekker Piet Zwart Institute The Netherlands Material Imagination: on the Avant-Gardes Time and Computation - Olga Goriunova University of Warwick UK Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements Introduction - Olga Goriunova University of Warwick UK Technology Logistics and Logic: Rethinking the Problem of Fun in Software - Andrew Goffey University of Nottingham UK Bend 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 UK Do 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 Netherlands Not Just For Fun - Geoff Cox Aarhus University Denmark and Alex McLean University of Leeds UK Fun is a Battlefield: Software between Enjoyment and Obsession - Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Andrew Lison Brown University USA Monopoly and The Logic of Sensation in Spacewar! - Christian Ulrik Andersen Aarhus University Denmark Human-Computer Interaction a Sci-Fi discipline? - Brigitte Kaltenbacher Goldsmiths College UK A Fun Aesthetic and Art - Annet Dekker Piet Zwart Institute The Netherlands Material Imagination: on the Avant-Gardes Time and Computation - Olga Goriunova University of Warwick UK Notes on Contributors
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