Acknowledgements Introduction – Olga Goriunova, University of Warwick, UK Technology, Logistics and Logic: Rethinking the Problem of Fun in Software - Andrew Goffey, University of Nottingham, UK Bend Sinister: Monstrosity and Normative Effect in Computational Practice - Simon Yuill, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Always One Bit More, Computing and the Experience of Ambiguity - Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Do Algorithms Have Fun? On Completion, Indeterminacy and Autonomy in Computation - Luciana Parisi and M. Beatrice Fazi, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK useR!: Aggression, Alterity and Unbound Affects in Statistical Programming - Adrian Mackenzie, Lancaster University, UK Do (not) Repeat Yourself - Michael Murtaugh, Piet Zwart Institute, The Netherlands Not Just For Fun - Geoff Cox, Aarhus University, Denmark, and Alex McLean, University of Leeds, UK Fun is a Battlefield: Software between Enjoyment and Obsession - Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Andrew Lison, Brown University, USA Monopoly and The Logic of Sensation in Spacewar! - Christian Ulrik Andersen, Aarhus University, Denmark Human-Computer Interaction, a Sci-Fi discipline? - Brigitte Kaltenbacher, Goldsmiths College, UK A Fun Aesthetic and Art – Annet Dekker, Piet Zwart Institute, The Netherlands Material Imagination: on the Avant-Gardes, Time and Computation - Olga Goriunova, University of Warwick, UK Notes on Contributors

A serious materialist approach to software inevitably must confront the emotional character of programming, in all of its component parts, from the thrill of invention to obsession. It must also wrestle with entrenched notions that this craft is driven predominantly by a cool, calculated rationality. Long overdue, Fun and Software fulfills both requirements, providing an exquisite collection of delightful essays full of insight about the deep pleasures and frustrations feeding the inventive process of coding.