Index

Contents

Acknowledgements	                                               vi
Introduction Olga Goriunova	                                        1

1   Technology, Logistics and Logic: Rethinking the Problem of Fun in 
    Software Andrew Goffey	                                       21

2   Bend Sinister: Monstrosity and Normative Effect in Computational 
    Practice Simon Yuill	                                       41

3   Always One Bit More, Computing and the Experience of Ambiguity 
    Matthew Fuller	                                               91

4   Do Algorithms Have Fun? On Completion, Indeterminacy and 
    Autonomy in Computation Luciana Parisi and M. Beatrice Fazi       109

5   useR!: Aggression, Alterity and Unbound Affects in Statistical 
    Programming Adrian Mackenzie	                              129

6   Do (not) Repeat Yourself Michael Murtaugh                         145

7   Not Just for Fun Geoff Cox and Alex McLean                        157

8   Fun is a Battlefield: Software between Enjoyment and Obsession
    Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Andrew Lison	                      175

9   Monopoly and the Logic of Sensation in Spacewar! Christian Ulrik 
    Andersen	                                                      197

10  Human-computer Interaction, a Sci-fi Discipline? Brigitte 
    Kaltenbacher	                                              213

11  A Fun Aesthetic and Art Annet Dekker                              233

12  Material Imagination: On the Avant-gardes, Time and Computation 
    Olga Goriunova                                                    253

Notes on Contributors	                                              275
Index	                                                              279