This collection of short expository, critical and speculative texts offers a field guide to the cultural, political, social and aesthetic impact of software. Ex

An alternative history of software that places the liberal arts at the very center of software's evolution. In The Software Arts, Warren Sack offers an alternat

An argument that we must read code for more than what it does—we must consider what it means. Computer source code has become part of popular discourse. Code

An analysis of the ways that software creates new spatialities in everyday life, from supermarket checkout lines to airline flight paths. After little more than

The book explores the technical as well as cultural imaginaries of programming from its insides, demonstrating the reflexive practice of aesthetic programming,