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Moonbit

"Moonbit is a hybrid work comprised of experimental poetry and a critical theory of the poetics and politics of computer code. It offers an extended intellectual and creative engagement with the affordances of computer software through multiple readings and re-writings of a singular text, the s...

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Autores principales: Mosteirin, Rena J. (Autor, VerfasserIn.), Dobson, James E. (Autor, VerfasserIn.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Indeterminado
Publicado: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] punctum books 2019
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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