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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 404
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ISBN-10 : 9781503602342
ISBN-13 : 1503602346
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Download or read book Plain Text written by Dennis Tenen and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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