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Plain Text - The Poetics of Computation (Hardcover)
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Plain Text - The Poetics of Computation (Hardcover)
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This book challenges the ways we read, write, store, and retrieve
information in the digital age. Computers-from electronic books to
smart phones-play an active role in our social lives. Our
technological choices thus entail theoretical and political
commitments. Dennis Tenen takes up today's strange enmeshing of
humans, texts, and machines to argue that our most ingrained
intuitions about texts are profoundly alienated from the physical
contexts of their intellectual production. Drawing on a range of
primary sources from both literary theory and software engineering,
he makes a case for a more transparent practice of human-computer
interaction. Plain Text is thus a rallying call, a frame of mind as
much as a file format. It reminds us, ultimately, that our devices
also encode specific modes of governance and control that must
remain available to interpretation.
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