Goriunova, Olga, ed. (2014) Fun and Software : exploring pleasure, paradox and pain in computing. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781623568870

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Book
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies
Publisher:	Bloomsbury
Place of Publication:	London
ISBN:	9781623568870
Editor:	Goriunova, Olga
Official Date:	2014
Dates:	Date Event 2014 Published
Number of Pages:	296
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access

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