Introduction: Software, a supersensible sensible thing -- You -- Invisibly visible, visibly invisible. On sourcery and source codes -- Computers that roar -- Daemonic interfaces, empowering obfuscations -- Regenerating archives. Order from order, or life according to software -- The undead of information -- Always already there, or software as memory -- Conclusion: In medias res -- Epilogue: In medias race -- You, again
Summary
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that cycles of obsolescence & renewal result in part from the ways in which new media encapsulates a logic of programmability. In seeking to embody a future based on past data, new media becomes a metaphor for metaphor itself
