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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...

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Published in:Configurations Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 299 - 325
Main Author: Hui Kyong Chun, Wendy
Format: Article
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press Fall2008
Subjects:
Questioning
Computer software
Programming languages
Source code
Mass media
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