How To Be a Geek (eBook)

Matthew Fuller is Professor of Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London

Contents

Acknowledgements

Biographies of Co-Authors

Introduction

Histories

1. The Obscure Objects of Object Orientation (with Andrew Goffey)

2. Abstract Urbanism (with Graham Harwood)

Entities

3. Software Studies Methods

4. Big Diff, granularity, incoherence and production in the Github software repository, (with Andrew Goffey, Adrian Mackenzie, Richard Mills and Stuart Sharples)

5. The Author Name (with Nikita Mazurov and Dan McQuillan)

Aesthetics

6. Always One Bit More, computing and the experience of ambiguity

7. Computational Aesthetics (with M. Beatrice Fazi)

8. Phrase (with Olga Goriunova)

9. Feral Computing: from ubiquitous computing to wild interactions (with Sonia Matos)

10. Just fun enough to go completely mad about: on games, procedures and amusement

Powers

11. Black Sites and Transparency Layers

12. Algorithmic Tumult and the Brilliance of Chelsea Manning

Index

"Insightful, informative, provocative and brilliant, Fuller 'geeks out' the problematic of software. In a wide-ranging analysis that moves from object oriented languages to github, from metadata to urban models, Fuller reveals software's intersecting technical, cultural and political aspects. A must read for anyone interested in software and new media studies."
--Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Brown University

"This new book from the pioneer of software studies sets a new standard for critical discussion about the crucial part of contemporary culture and society - software. From mobile apps and social networks to email and word processing, we use software everyday. Yet critical thinking about software that can combine big ideas with careful attention to small details and genealogies of software concepts, tools, and interfaces is still rare. Fuller and his collaborators both give us fresh ideas and wonderful insights, and also show us what it means to study software culture."
--Lev Manovich, City University of New York