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The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age

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Writing remains to me an unusual practice that transforms my experience of the world whilst under the spell of writing. This book has had a particularly intensive birth, written as it is in the middle of the academic year and with everyday life swirling around it with all the attendant distractions. It has emerged from a number of related research themes that continue to guide my work and are focused on the challenge to thinking that is posed by technology. This work has been influenced, inspired, guided and challenged by such a plethora of authors that it is not possible to list them all here. However, I feel that they are all flowing in different modulations and intensities through the text that follows. I pass on this text in the hope that future readers will find something interesting in a subject I continue to find deeply fascinating.

This book is a critical introduction to code and software that develops an understanding of its social and philosophical implications in the digital age. Written specifically for people interested in the subject from a non-technical background, the book provides a lively and interesting analysis of these new media forms.

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