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oapen-20.500.12657-544682023-02-01T08:50:49Z Anti-computing Bassett, Caroline Computers Business & Economics Industries Computers & Information Technology Computers Information Technology bic Book Industry Communication::U Computing & information technology::UB Information technology: general issues bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KN Industry & industrial studies::KNT Media, information & communication industries::KNTX Information technology industries bic Book Industry Communication::U Computing & information technology::UB Information technology: general issues 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. <i> </i> <i>Anti-Computing</i> 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. 2022-05-17T05:31:16Z 2022-05-17T05:31:16Z 2022 book 9781526160720 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54468 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf Manchester University Press Manchester University Press https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526160720 6278 https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526160720 6110b9b4-ba84-42ad-a0d8-f8d877957cdd b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781526160720 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Manchester University Press Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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. <i> </i> <i>Anti-Computing</i> 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.
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