On "Sourcery," or Code as Fetish.
This essay offers a sympathetic interrogation of the move within new media studies toward "software studies." Arguing against theoretical conceptions of programming languages as the ultimate performative utterance, it contends that source code is never simply the source of any action; rather, source...
| Publicado en: | Configurations Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 299 - 325 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Fall2008
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