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The Imaginary App.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Software StudiesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (328 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262320795
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Imaginary AppDDC classification:
  • 303.48/34
LOC classification:
  • QA76.9.C66 I35 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Architectures -- 1 On Apps and Elementary Forms of Interfacial Life: Object, Image, Superimposition -- 2 Controlled Consumption Culture: When Digital Culture Becomes Software Business -- 3 The Philosophical Carpentry of the App: Criticism and Practice -- 4 Remote Control: Wolfram|Alpha and Machinic Protocol -- 5 The Path Is Math: On the Art and Science of Numbers -- II Prosthetics -- 6 Auxiliary Organs: An Ethics of the Extended Mind -- 7 Must We Burn Virilio? The App and the Human System -- 8 The App as an Extension of Man's Desires -- 9 "Text and Walk without Fear": Apps and the Experience of Transparency -- III Economics -- 10 App Worker -- 11 Dare et Capere: Virtuous Mesh and a Targeting Diagram -- 12 Construction of the App Economy in the Networked Korean Society -- 13 What China's Netizens Want: Building Tech Ecosystems in the World's Toughest Market -- IV Remediations -- 14 The Language of Media Software -- 15 Apps as "Charming Junkware"? -- 16 The Spinoza Lens-Grinder App -- 17 From the Digital to the Tentacular, or From iPods to Cephalopods: Apps, Traps, and Entrées-without-Exit -- 18 To Make You Completely Present in the Moment -- 19 Nonlinear Music Navigates the Earth -- Contributors -- Index -- Color Plates.
Summary: The mobile app as technique and imaginary tool, offering a shortcut to instantaneous connection and entertainment.
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Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Architectures -- 1 On Apps and Elementary Forms of Interfacial Life: Object, Image, Superimposition -- 2 Controlled Consumption Culture: When Digital Culture Becomes Software Business -- 3 The Philosophical Carpentry of the App: Criticism and Practice -- 4 Remote Control: Wolfram|Alpha and Machinic Protocol -- 5 The Path Is Math: On the Art and Science of Numbers -- II Prosthetics -- 6 Auxiliary Organs: An Ethics of the Extended Mind -- 7 Must We Burn Virilio? The App and the Human System -- 8 The App as an Extension of Man's Desires -- 9 "Text and Walk without Fear": Apps and the Experience of Transparency -- III Economics -- 10 App Worker -- 11 Dare et Capere: Virtuous Mesh and a Targeting Diagram -- 12 Construction of the App Economy in the Networked Korean Society -- 13 What China's Netizens Want: Building Tech Ecosystems in the World's Toughest Market -- IV Remediations -- 14 The Language of Media Software -- 15 Apps as "Charming Junkware"? -- 16 The Spinoza Lens-Grinder App -- 17 From the Digital to the Tentacular, or From iPods to Cephalopods: Apps, Traps, and Entrées-without-Exit -- 18 To Make You Completely Present in the Moment -- 19 Nonlinear Music Navigates the Earth -- Contributors -- Index -- Color Plates.

The mobile app as technique and imaginary tool, offering a shortcut to instantaneous connection and entertainment.

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