Becca’s Reviews > Programmed Visions: Software and Memory > Status Update

"We no longer partake of the drama of alienation," writes Jean Baudrillard, "but are in the ecstasy of communication." Only 18 pages in and Chun is quoting Baudrillard, Roland Barthes, Foucault, and Lev Manovich. The subject is software and how it has shifted in the cultural imagination from disembodied information to a physical object that you can buy. (Spoiler: neoliberalism!). This book feels very important.