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The cultural and philosophical study of software is crucial, both within and outside of the university, at an international level and across disciplines. Software is increasingly considered the focus of digital media studies because of the perceived need to address the invisibility, ubiquity and power of digital media. Yet software remains quite obscure to students and scholars in media studies, the social sciences and the humanities. This unique book engages directly in close readings of technical texts and computer code in order to show how software works and in what sense it can be considered constitutive of culture and even of human thought. Federica Frabetti combines this with an engagement with thinkers such as Bernard Steigler and Jacques Derrida to problematize the very nature of the conceptual system on which software is based and which has shaped its historical evolution. The book argues for a radical demystification of software and digital technologies by addressing the mystery that surrounds its function and that affects our comprehension of its relationship between technology, philosophy, culture and society.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Media studies

• Full title: Software Theory
• Subtitle: A Cultural and Philosophical Study
• Author: Federica Frabetti
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 220
• EAN: 9781783481965
• ISBN: 178348196X
• ID: 06401240
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
• Weight: 418 g
• Dimensions: 146 × 218 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. November 2014

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