TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tenen,Dennis
TI  - Plain text: the poetics of computation 
SN  - 9781503602342
AV  - PN56.T37 T47 2017
U1  - 809/.93356 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Literature and technology
KW  - Digital media
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Electronic publications
KW  - Electronic publishing
KW  - Littérature et technologie
KW  - Médias numériques
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Publications électroniques
KW  - Édition électronique
KW  - electronic publishing
KW  - aat
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Computational poetics : an introduction -- Metaphor machines -- Laying bare the device : the modernist roots of computation -- Form, formula, format -- Recondite surfaces -- Literature down to a pixel -- Conclusion : human grounds for computation
N2  - This book challenges the ways we read, write, store, and retrieve information in the digital age. Computers--from electronic books to smart phones--play an active role in our social lives. Our technological choices thus entail theoretical and political commitments. Dennis Tenen takes up today's strange enmeshing of humans, texts, and machines to argue that our most ingrained intuitions about texts are profoundly alienated from the physical contexts of their intellectual production. Drawing on a range of primary sources from both literary theory and software engineering, he makes a case for a more transparent practice of human-computer interaction. Plain Text is thus a rallying call, a frame of mind as much as a file format. It reminds us, ultimately, that our devices also encode specific modes of governance and control that must remain available to interpretation
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