Description
Book SynopsisThe 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 Contents1 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
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