Anti-Computing - Dissent and the Machine

Informationen zum Autor Caroline Bassett is Senior Lecturer in Digital Media in the Department of Media and Film at the University of Sussex Klappentext We live in a moment of high anxiety around digital transformation. Computers are blamed for generating toxic forms of culture and ways of life. Once part of future imaginaries that were optimistic or even utopian, today there is a sense that things have turned out very differently. Anti-computing is widespread. This book seeks to understand its cultural and material logics, its forms, and its operations. Anti-Computing critically investigates forgotten histories of dissent - moments when the imposition of computational technologies, logics, techniques, imaginaries, utopias have been questioned, disputed, or refused. It asks why dissent is forgotten and how - under what circumstances - it revives. Constituting an engagement with media archaeology/medium theory and working through a series of case studies, this book is compelling reading for scholars in digital media, literary, cultural history, digital humanities and associated fields at all levels. An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. Zusammenfassung The computerization of culture appears relentless and unstoppable. In response Anti-Computing deals in dissent. Engaging with critical theory and media archaeology, working with rich and varied materials, it explores key moments when computer technologies, logics, techniques, imaginaries, utopias have been questioned, disputed, or refused. -- .

About the author

Caroline Bassett is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Cambridge

Product details

• Authors: Caroline Bassett, Bassett Caroline
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780719083785
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8378-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; COMPUTERS / General, COMPUTERS / Information Technology, COMPUTERS / History, Information technology industries, Technology: general issues, History of engineering & technology, Computing & Information Technology, Computing and Information Technology