{"product_id":"plain-text-the-poetics-of-computation-hardback-9781503601802","title":"Plain Text; The Poetics of Computation (Hardback) 9781503601802","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePlain Text\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Poetics of Computation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDennis Tenen (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503601802\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 20 June 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePlain Text\u003c\/i\u003e stands out as a media study that attends to the historical roots of debates about form and format in language. Tenen's valuable connections between long-standing critical engagements with poetic composition and current digital writing practices emerge from precise and informed attention to his sources.\"—Johanna Drucker, University of California, Los Angeles \"\u003ci\u003ePlain Text\u003c\/i\u003e shows us that text is anything but plain—this is a sharp and imaginative contribution to the debates around what it means to produce, read, and process texts in the era of digital culture.\"—Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths, University of London \"An essential read for those interested in \u003ci\u003etext\u003c\/i\u003e in its many contemporary cultural contexts and points of impact—Tenen moves from strength to strength across (inter)disciplinary points of engagement with a welcome personal acuity.\"—Ray Siemens, University of Victoria \"\u003ci\u003ePlain Text\u003c\/i\u003e adds to the impressive work of such computationally savvy theorists as Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Alexander Galloway, Alan Liu, Rita Raley, and others to make a clear, forceful case for computational poetics as a necessary literary practice in the digital age. \"—N. Katherine Hayles, \u003ci\u003eCritical Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e \"Ask yourself: When I write on a computer, where does that writing reside? Is it there, on the word document, or is it buried deep inside the hard drive? Does literature actually end in cryptograms, in the layers of encoding deep beneath the liquid light of a laptop screen? These are the questions at the heart of Dennis Tenen's important and engaging book. We're lost among the copper, the cables, the formats, the terms and conditions. Tenen's \u003ci\u003ePlain Text\u003c\/i\u003e provides a lucid and legible map to our often vertiginous computational climate.\"—James Edward Draney, \u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Review of Books \u003c\/i\u003e \"This book is not just about opening the black box of digital reading and writing, the devices and programs we use to do so, or the digital turn of our culture. Written by an English and Comparative Literature professor who is also a trained engineer and a migrant having moved from post-Soviet Russia to the \"global\" North-West, \u003ci\u003ePlain Text\u003c\/i\u003e is a vibrant call to rethink the two culture debate in broad cultural and political terms.\"—Jan Baetens, \u003ci\u003eLeonardo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003ci\u003ePlain Text\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eComputational Poetics: An Introduction\u003cbr\u003e  1. Metaphor Machines\u003cbr\u003e  2. Laying Bare the Device: The Modernist Roots of Computation\u003cbr\u003e  3. Form, Formula, Format\u003cbr\u003e  4. Recondite Surfaces\u003cbr\u003e  5. Literature Down to a Pixel\u003cbr\u003e  6. 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