Colleagues,

A reminder of David Berry's talk at the National Media Museum tomorrow night:

http://bms.brad.ac.uk/research/timecode.php?id=25

And the publication of his new book called The Philosophy of Software:  
Code and Mediation in the Digital Age (Palgrave Macmillan), ISBN  
9780230244184, 216 pages.

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=395958

See below for further information.

Best wishes,
Mark Goodall
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Contents

Acknowledgements
1. The Idea of Code
2. What is Code?
3. Reading and Writing Code
4. Running Code
5. Towards a Phenomenology of Computation
6. Real-Time Streams
Bibliography
Index

Review

'This is a beautifully written book that pulls off the difficult task  
of introducing the subject of software and the workings of code to the  
non specialist whilst also providing an original take of the  
philosophical and the cultural importance of Code in contemporary  
culture.'
- Michael Bull, University of Sussex, UK

Product Description

The Philosophy of Software is a critical introduction to the subject  
of code and software, and develops an understanding of its social and  
philosophical implications in the digital age. The book has been  
written specifically for people interested in the subject from a  
non-technical background and provides a lively and interesting  
analysis of these new media forms. The book argues that software is a  
tangle, a knot, which ties together the physical and the ephemeral,  
the material and the ethereal, into a complete system that can be  
controlled and directed. However, software exceeds our ability to  
place limits on its entanglement, for it has in the past decade  
entered the everyday home through electronic augmentation that has  
replaced the mechanical world of the twentieth century. From washing  
machines to central heating systems, children's toys to television and  
video; the old electro-magnetic and servo-mechanical world is being  
revolutionised by the silent logic of virtual devices. It is time,  
therefore, to examine our virtual situation.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0230244181/ref=kinw_rke_rti_1


http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/ArtsHumanities/berryd/


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