Plain Text: The Poetics of Computation

This book challenges the ways we read, write, store, and retrieve information in the digital age. Computers-from...
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Author: Dennis Tenen
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Plain Text: The Poetics of Computation by Tenen, Dennis

Plain Text: The Poetics of Computation

$497.99

Plain Text: The Poetics of Computation

$497.99
Author: Dennis Tenen
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Dennis Tenen
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 06/20/2017
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781503602281

About the Author
Dennis Tenen is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he is a Co-Founder of Columbia's Group for Experimental Research Methods in the Humanities.

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