Feminist in a Software Lab
Difference + Design
Published on 19. February 2018
280 pages
978-0-674-27528-7 (ISBN)
Description
Tara McPherson asks what might it mean to design-from conception-digital tools and applications that emerge from contextual concerns of cultural theory and from a feminist concern for difference. This question leads to the Vectors Lab, which for a dozen years has experimented with digital scholarship at the intersection of theory and praxis.
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-27528-7 (9780674275287)
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02/2018
Harvard University Press
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Content
Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents A Visual Introduction Preface: Opening Vectors How to Read This Book Chapter 1. Designing for Difference Into the Fray Modularity at Midcentury: Thinking Race + UNIX Situating UNIX Modularity in the Social Field + the Database Moving beyond Our Boxes+ Mapping Materialisms Window 1. Introducing Vectors On Process Window 2. The Look + Feel of Vectors Window 3. Making "Stolen Time" Reimagining Content and Form Window 4. Various Vectors Scaling Vectors Window 5. The Scalar Feature Set and Showcase Outro: Scholarship in the Wild Appendix: Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Scholarship Endnotes Bibliography Acknowledgments Credits
