Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty
Autor Vikram Chandraen Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2014
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The nonfiction debut from the author of the international bestseller "Sacred Games" about the surprising overlap between writing and computer coding
Vikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary new book, his first work of nonfiction, he searches for the connections between the worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style, just as writers are, but do the words mean the same thing to both? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of writing code?
Exploring such varied topics as logic gates and literary modernism, the machismo of tech geeks, the omnipresence of an "Indian Mafia" in Silicon Valley, and the writings of the eleventh-century Kashmiri thinker Abhinavagupta, "Geek Sublime" is both an idiosyncratic history of coding and a fascinating meditation on the writer's art. Part literary essay, part technology story, and part memoir, it is an engrossing, original, and heady book of sweeping ideas.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781555976859
ISBN-10: 1555976859
Pagini: 236
Dimensiuni: 140 x 208 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Graywolf Press
Locul publicării:Minneapolis, United States
ISBN-10: 1555976859
Pagini: 236
Dimensiuni: 140 x 208 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Graywolf Press
Locul publicării:Minneapolis, United States
Descriere
The nonfiction debut from the author of the international bestseller "Sacred Games" about the surprising overlap between writing and computer coding
Vikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary new book, his first work of nonfiction, he searches for the connections between the worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style, just as writers are, but do the words mean the same thing to both? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of writing code?
Exploring such varied topics as logic gates and literary modernism, the machismo of tech geeks, the omnipresence of an "Indian Mafia" in Silicon Valley, and the writings of the eleventh-century Kashmiri thinker Abhinavagupta, "Geek Sublime" is both an idiosyncratic history of coding and a fascinating meditation on the writer's art. Part literary essay, part technology story, and part memoir, it is an engrossing, original, and heady book of sweeping ideas.
Vikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary new book, his first work of nonfiction, he searches for the connections between the worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style, just as writers are, but do the words mean the same thing to both? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of writing code?
Exploring such varied topics as logic gates and literary modernism, the machismo of tech geeks, the omnipresence of an "Indian Mafia" in Silicon Valley, and the writings of the eleventh-century Kashmiri thinker Abhinavagupta, "Geek Sublime" is both an idiosyncratic history of coding and a fascinating meditation on the writer's art. Part literary essay, part technology story, and part memoir, it is an engrossing, original, and heady book of sweeping ideas.
Notă biografică
Vikram Chandra is the author of three highly acclaimed works of fiction, most recently "Sacred Games," which won the 2006 Hutch Crossword Award. Chandra lives in Oakland, California and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.
Recenzii
Praise for "Sacred Games"
"Bold, fresh, and big . . . "Sacred Games" deserves praise for its ambitions but also for its terrific achievement." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR, "Fresh Air
""Monumental . . . Chandra brilliantly evokes [Mumbai] . . . in all its vibrant chaos." --"The Wall Street Journal
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"Ravishing . . . Extraordinary . . . A chaotic and luminous whole." --"Entertainment Weekly
""It's a rare pleasure to be arrested by this novel's thunderous momentum . . . Few readers will be unenthralled." --"The Boston Globe"
Praise for "Geek "Sublime:
"An unexpected tour de force. . . . Its ambition: to look deeply, and with great subtlety, into the connections and tensions between the worlds--the cultures--of technology and art. The book becomes an exquisite meditation on aesthetics, and meanwhile it is also part memoir, the story of a young man finding his way from India to the West and back, and from literature to programming and back. . . . Programmers feel an exhilarating creative mastery, and Chandra captures it." --James Gleick, "The New York Times Book Review"
""Geek Sublime" dwells on Chandra's gripping personal narrative . . . as well as his sometimes spiritual exploration of computer language, the ancient Vedas, and the way they share so many traits with fiction. In a sense, it's like "Zen and the Art of Software Maintenance." 'The past and present speak to us in languages we refuse to hear, ' he proclaims, and it's the book's most succinct statement of intent--not to mention its own well-earned profundity." --"NPR"
"Chandra weaves a comprehensive understanding of the history, practice and art of programming into a startling fabric. . . . It is a dazzle, from beginning to end. . . . Plenty of programmers consider themselves artists, and plenty of writers presume to declaim about programming. But very, very few can comfortably inhabit both worlds with such grace and precision. . . . There is so much to be fascinated by here." --"Salon"
"Chandra, brainy, delving, and spellbinding, delineates the intricacy and beauty of code. . . . As [he] illuminates links between programming and literature in bedazzling elucidations of Sanskrit, linguistics, aesthetics, and Hindu, Tantric, and Buddhist beliefs, he also conducts unique and heady inquiries into codes, ethical as well as binary. Chandra's creative and elegant meshing of thought and experience, conscience and storytelling nets both the profane and the sublime." --"Booklist"
"Bold, fresh, and big . . . "Sacred Games" deserves praise for its ambitions but also for its terrific achievement." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR, "Fresh Air
""Monumental . . . Chandra brilliantly evokes [Mumbai] . . . in all its vibrant chaos." --"The Wall Street Journal
"
"Ravishing . . . Extraordinary . . . A chaotic and luminous whole." --"Entertainment Weekly
""It's a rare pleasure to be arrested by this novel's thunderous momentum . . . Few readers will be unenthralled." --"The Boston Globe"
Praise for "Geek "Sublime:
"An unexpected tour de force. . . . Its ambition: to look deeply, and with great subtlety, into the connections and tensions between the worlds--the cultures--of technology and art. The book becomes an exquisite meditation on aesthetics, and meanwhile it is also part memoir, the story of a young man finding his way from India to the West and back, and from literature to programming and back. . . . Programmers feel an exhilarating creative mastery, and Chandra captures it." --James Gleick, "The New York Times Book Review"
""Geek Sublime" dwells on Chandra's gripping personal narrative . . . as well as his sometimes spiritual exploration of computer language, the ancient Vedas, and the way they share so many traits with fiction. In a sense, it's like "Zen and the Art of Software Maintenance." 'The past and present speak to us in languages we refuse to hear, ' he proclaims, and it's the book's most succinct statement of intent--not to mention its own well-earned profundity." --"NPR"
"Chandra weaves a comprehensive understanding of the history, practice and art of programming into a startling fabric. . . . It is a dazzle, from beginning to end. . . . Plenty of programmers consider themselves artists, and plenty of writers presume to declaim about programming. But very, very few can comfortably inhabit both worlds with such grace and precision. . . . There is so much to be fascinated by here." --"Salon"
"Chandra, brainy, delving, and spellbinding, delineates the intricacy and beauty of code. . . . As [he] illuminates links between programming and literature in bedazzling elucidations of Sanskrit, linguistics, aesthetics, and Hindu, Tantric, and Buddhist beliefs, he also conducts unique and heady inquiries into codes, ethical as well as binary. Chandra's creative and elegant meshing of thought and experience, conscience and storytelling nets both the profane and the sublime." --"Booklist"
Premii
- National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, 2014