Software as Hermeneutics: A Philosophical and Historical Study
Luca Possati
This book claims that continental philosophy gives us a new understanding of digital technology, and software in particular; it’s main thesis being that software is like a text, so it involves a hermeneutic process. A hermeneutic understanding of software allows us to explain those aspects of software that escape a strictly technical definition, such as the relationship with the user, the human being, and the social and cultural transformations that software produces. The starting point of the book is the fracture between living experience and the code. In the first chapter, the author holds that the code is the origin of the digital experience, while remaining hidden, invisible. The second chapter explores how the software can be seen as a text in Ricoeur’s sense. Before being an algorithm, code or problem solving, software is an act of interpretation. The third chapter connects software to the history of writing, following Kittler’s suggestions.
年:
2021
出版社:
Palgrave Macmillan
语言:
english
页:
255
ISBN 10:
3030636097
ISBN 13:
9783030636098
文件:
PDF, 3.59 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2021
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