Cutting Code Software and Sociality

"«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, John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature, University of California, Los Angeles and Author of «My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts»