Software studies

Theorists

• Christian Ulrik Andersen
• David M. Berry
• Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
• Geoff Cox
• Florian Cramer
• Federica Frabetti
• Matthew Fuller
• Alexander R. Galloway
• Olga Goriunova
• Anne Helmond
• Adrian Mackenzie
• Lev Manovich
• Aymeric Mansoux
• Mathieu O'Neil
• Luciana Parisi
• Søren Pold
• Johan Söderberg
• Winnie Soon
• Nathaniel Tkacz
• Noah Wardrip-Fruin
• Simon Yuill

Bibliography

Matthew Fuller (ed.), Software Studies: A Lexicon, 2008. Download.

Book series

Software Studies (MIT Press) [1]

Edited by Matthew Fuller, Lev Manovich, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin.

• Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Programmed Visions: Software and Memory, The MIT Press, 2011, 239 pp. [2]
• Rob Kitchin, Martin Dodge, Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life, The MIT Press, 2011, 304 pp. [3] [4]
• Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies, The MIT Press, 2012, 504 pp. [5]
• Geoff Cox, Alex McLean, Speaking Code: Coding as Aesthetic and Political Expression, The MIT Press, 2012, 168 pp. [6]
• Nick Montfort, et al., 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, The MIT Press, 2012, 304 pp. [7]

Other books

• Philip Agre, Computing and Human Experience, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
• Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media, The MIT Press, 2001.
• Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Nick Montfort (eds.), The New Media Reader, The MIT Press, 2003.
• Matthew Fuller, Behind The Blip. Essays On The Culture Of Software, New York: Autonomedia, 2003. [8]
• Alexander Galloway, Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization, The MIT Press, 2004, 260 pp.
• Olga Goriunova, Alexei Shulgin (eds.), Readme Edition 2004: Software Art and Cultures, Aarhus: University of Aarhus, 2004, 400 pp.
• Geoff Cox, Joasia Krysa (eds.), DATA browser 02: Engineering Culture: On ‘The Author as (Digital) Producer’, Autonomedia, 2005, 240 pp.
• Adrian Mackenzie, Cutting Code: Software and Sociality, New York: Peter Lang, 2006.
• Jussi Parikka, Digital Contagions: A Media Archeology of Computer Viruses, New York: Peter Lang, 2007. Conclusions.
• Matthew Fuller (ed.), Software Studies: A Lexicon, The MIT Press, 2008. [9]
• Jussi Parikka, Tony D. Sampson (eds.), The Spam Book: On Viruses, Porn, and Other Anomalies from the Dark Side of Digital Culture, Hampton Press, 2009, 320 pp.
• Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost, Racing the Beam, The Atari Video Computer System, The MIT Press, 2009.
• Konrad Becker, Felix Stalder (eds.), Deep Search, Studeinverlag, 2010.
• David M. Berry, The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
• Christian Ulrik Andersen, Søren Bro Pold, Interface Criticism: Aesthetics Beyond Buttons, Aarhus University Press, 2011. TOC and Introduction.
• David M. Berry (ed.), Life in Code and Software: Mediated Life in a Complex Computational Ecology, London: Open Humanities Press, 2012.
• David M. Berry, Software Studies: Theory and Practice, Cupertino: Apple iBooks, 2012. [10]
• Matthew Fuller, Andrew Goffey, Evil Media, The MIT Press, 2012. [11]
• Lev Manovich, Software Takes Command, Bloomsbury, 2013.
• Publications on software studies at Monoskop Log

Journals

• Critical Studies in Peer Production (CSPP), 2011, 1 issue.
• Journal of Peer Production (JoPP), forked from CSPP in 2012. Editors: Mathieu O'Neil (coordinator), Athina Karatzogianni, George Michaelides, Johan Söderberg, Maurizio Teli, Nathaniel Tkacz.
• Computational Culture, a Journal of Software Studies, since 2012. Editorial group: Matthew Fuller, Andrew Goffey, Olga Goriunova, Graham Harwood, Adrian Mackenzie.

Book chapters, Papers, Articles

• Félix Guattari, "A propos des machines", Chimeres, No. 19 (Spring 1993). (in French) Originally given as a lecture in November 1990 at the 'Cinema et Litterature: Le temps des machines' conference organised by the Centre de recherche et d'action culturelle de Valence.
  • "On Machines", trans. Vivian Constantinopoulos, in Andrew Benjamin (ed.), Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts, No. 6, Complexity: Architecture/Art/Philosophy, London: Academy Editions, 1995, pp 8-12. [12]
  • "Über Maschinen", in Henning Schmidgen (ed.), Ästhetik und Maschinismus. Texte zu und von Félix Guattari, Berlin 1995, pp 115-132. (in German)
• Matthew Fuller, "Behind the Blip: Software as Culture", Nettime, 7 January 2002.
• Wolfgang Hagen, "The Style of Source Codes", in: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Thomas Keenan (eds.), New Media, Old Media. New York: Routledge, 2005.
• Wendy Hui Kyung Chun, "On Software or the Persistence of Visual Knowledge", Grey Room, 18 (Winter 2005) pp 26-51.
• Mark C. Marino, "Critical Code Studies", Electronic Book Review, 12 April 2006.
• Matthew Fuller, "Softness: interrogability; general intellect, art methodologies in software", Huddersfield: Media Research Centre, 2006.
• Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, "On 'Sourcery,' or Code as Fetish", 2008.
• Sean Cubitt, "Codecs and Capability", in Geert Lovink, Sabine Niederer (eds.), Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2008.
• Jana Horáková, "Konec dějin nových médií: Softwarová studia", in Martin Flašar, Jana Horáková, Petr Macek et al, Umění a nová média, Masarykova univerzita, Brno, 2011, ISBN 978-80-210-5639-8. (in Czech)

See also

Software art, Evil media, Cultural transcoding, Digital humanities

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