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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.

Table of Contents

1 Anti computing: A provisional taxonomy
2 Discontinuous continuity: How anti-computing time travels
3 A most political performance: Treachery, the archive and the database
4 Arendt, automation, and the cybercultural revolution
5 Polemical acts of rare extremism: Two cultures and (Another) Hat
6 Apostacy in the temple of technology: ELIZA the more than mechanical therapist
7 Those in love with quantum filth: Science Fiction, singularity and the flesh
Conclusion: A distant reading of the contemporary moment
Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 2/22/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719083785, 978-0719083785
      ISBN10: 0719083788

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      1 Anti computing: A provisional taxonomy
      2 Discontinuous continuity: How anti-computing time travels
      3 A most political performance: Treachery, the archive and the database
      4 Arendt, automation, and the cybercultural revolution
      5 Polemical acts of rare extremism: Two cultures and (Another) Hat
      6 Apostacy in the temple of technology: ELIZA the more than mechanical therapist
      7 Those in love with quantum filth: Science Fiction, singularity and the flesh
      Conclusion: A distant reading of the contemporary moment
      Index

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