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Software as Hermeneutics - A Philosophical and Historical Study (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Software as Hermeneutics - A Philosophical and Historical Study (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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This book claims that continental philosophy gives us a new
understanding of digital technology, and software in particular;
its main thesis being that software is like a text, so it involves
a hermeneutic process. A hermeneutic understanding of software
allows us to explain those aspects of software that escape a
strictly technical definition, such as the relationship with the
user, the human being, and the social and cultural transformations
that software produces. The starting point of the book is the
fracture between living experience and the code. In the first
chapter, the author argues that the code is the origin of the
digital experience, while remaining hidden, invisible. The second
chapter explores how the software can be seen as a text in
Ricoeur's sense. Before being an algorithm, code or problem
solving, software is an act of interpretation. The third chapter
connects software to the history of writing, following Kittler's
suggestions. The fourth chapter unifies the two parts of the book,
the historical and the theoretical, from a Kantian perspective. The
central thesis is that software is a form of reflective judgment,
namely, digital reflective judgement.
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