Interface / Branden Hookway.
| Author/creator | Hookway, Branden |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014] |
| Description | xi, 178 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The subject of the interface -- The interface as form of relation -- Between faces and facing between -- The interface and the surface -- Toward a theory of the interface -- Janus and Jupiter -- Control and power -- The interface and the apparatus -- The interface and the game -- The interface and the machine -- Separation and augmentation -- Mimicry in the game and the interface -- The forming of the interface -- The interface as that which defines the fluid -- Turbulence and control -- The exacting of turbulence -- The demons on the threshold -- Theories of the vortex -- Information and entropy -- Governance and reciprocity -- The interface and teleology -- The turbine as superimposition of fluid and machine -- The vertiginous moment of interface -- The augmentation of the interface -- A genius of augmentation -- The tacit knowing of the interface -- Singularity -- Symbiosis -- System -- Positioning. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-172) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013022300 |
| ISBN | 9780262525503 (pbk. : alk. paper) |