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
Language: English


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 441

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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Authors & Contributors
Benjamin, Ruha
Cortada, J. W.
Cortada, James W.
Jones, Steve
Lente, Dick van
Medina, Eden
Journals
The Bridge: Journal of the National Academy of Engineering
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Technology and Culture
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Perspectives on Science
Publishers
MIT Press
Oxford University Press
University of Minnesota Press
Association for Computing Machinery
Houghton Mifflin
Polity Press
Concepts
Computers and computing
Information technology
Technology and society
Computers and civilization
Computer science
Big data
People
Landauer, Rolf William (1927–1999)
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
United States
Great Britain
Chile
China
Germany
North America
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