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« 'Cutting Code' is a major study of code as a site for constructing, negotiating, and transforming social relations. Knowledgeable, comprehensive, and insightful, 'Cutting Code' is an essential text for anyone interested in how software achieves agency and consequently how it organizes the behaviors of both machines and humans. As soon as I finished this book, I turned it over and began reading it a second time; its deep clarity and compelling power demanded nothing less. -- N. Katherine Hayles
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Mackenzie investigates computer software as a social object and cultural process and considers its role in contemporary communication. His account diverges from a general sociology of technology in that it highlights the historical, material specificity of code as a shifting nexus of relations, forms and practices. Particular attention is paid thro
« 'Cutting Code' is a major study of code as a site for constructing, negotiating, and transforming social relations. Knowledgeable, comprehensive, and insightful, 'Cutting Code' is an essential text for anyone interested in how software achieves agency and consequently how it organizes the behaviors of both machines and humans. As soon as I finished this book, I turned it over and began reading it a second time; its deep clarity and compelling power demanded nothing less. -- N. Katherine Hayles
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Mackenzie investigates computer software as a social object and cultural process and considers its role in contemporary communication. His account diverges from a general sociology of technology in that it highlights the historical, material specificity of code as a shifting nexus of relations, forms and practices. Particular attention is paid thro
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