Book ID: CBB861867778

The Server: a media history from the present to the Baroque (2018)

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Krajewski, Markus (Author)
Ilinca Iurascu (Translator)


Ilinca Iurascu
Yale University Press


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 441
Language: English

Though classic servants like the butler or the governess have largely vanished, the Internet is filled with servers: web, ftp, mail, and others perform their daily drudgery, going about their business noiselessly and unnoticed. Why then are current-day digital drudges called servers? Markus Krajewski explores this question by going from the present back to the Baroque to study historical aspects of service through various perspectives, be it the servants' relationship to architecture or their function in literary or scientific contexts. At the intersection of media studies, cultural history, and literature, this work recounts the gradual transition of agency from human to nonhuman actors to show how the concept of the digital server stems from the classic role of the servant.

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Review Adrian Johns (April 2020) Review of "The Server: a media history from the present to the Baroque". Technology and Culture (pp. 682-685). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Auerswald, Philip E.
Little, Joyce Currie
Estrin, Deborah
Zhang, Yongjie
Kum Hee Choy
Wu, Dengsheng
Concepts
Information technology
Computers and computing
Technology and society
Big data
Computers and civilization
Technology
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
United States
North America
Europe
European Union
China
Chile
Institutions
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
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