Anti-computing Dissent and the machine /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bassett, Caroline (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[sine loco] : Manchester University Press, 2022.
Subjects:	Computers. Ordinateurs. computers. Business & Economics / Industries / Computers & Information Technology. Computers / Information Technology. Computers anti-computing; dissent; media archaeology; medium theory; Hannah Arendt; automation anxiety; science fiction; digital cultures; interdisciplinary research Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Front Matter
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1 Anti-computing
2 Discontinuous continuity
3 A most political performance
4 No special pleading
5 Polemical acts of rare extremism
6 Apostasy in the temple of technology
7 Those in love with quantum filth
Conclusion
Upping the anti
Index