Books
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Software Takes Command
New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
Available formats:
Hardcover, softcover, e-book, Kindle, Google Play, Open Access edition.
This new book from the celebrated author of The Language of New Media is the first to offer a rigorous theory of the technology we all use daily - software for media authoring, access, and sharing.
What motivated developers in the 1960s and 1970s to create the concepts and techniques that now underlie contemporary applications like…
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Software Culture
Translated into Italian by Matteo Tarantino. Milano: Edizioni Olivares, 2010. (In Italian)
From the publisher:
"Qual è l’anima della cultura contemporanea? Qual è la nostra nuova interfaccia con il mondo, con la nostra memoria e la nostra immaginazione? Quali sono il linguaggio e il motore universale della società dell’informazione globale? Il software. A dieci anni di distanza dal Linguaggio dei nuovi media, Lev Manovich ci racconta i nuovi scenari digitali che stanno trasf…
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Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database
DVD-video with 40 page color booklet. Together with Andreas Kratky. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005.
Soft Cinema project mines the creative possibilities at the intersection of software culture, cinema, and architecture. Its manifestations include films, dynamic visualizations, computer-driven installations, architectural designs, print catalogs, and DVDs. In parallel, the project investigates how the new representational techniques of soft(ware) cinema can be deployed to address t…