Description
Title: Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty
Author: Vikram Chandra
ISBN: 9781555976859
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2014
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
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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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