Bassett C. Anti-computing. Dissent And The Machine 2021 torrent

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Anti-computing explores forgotten histories and contemporary forms of dissent – moments when the imposition of computational technologies, logics, techniques, imaginaries, utopias have been questioned, disputed, or refused. It also asks why these moments tend to be forgotten. What is it about computational capitalism that means we live so much in the present? What has this to do with computational logics and practices themselves? This book addresses these issues through a critical engagement with media archaeology and medium theory and by way of a series of original studies; exploring Hannah Arendt and early automation anxiety, witnessing and the database, Two Cultures from the inside out, bot fear, singularity and/as science fiction. Finally, it returns to remap long-standing concerns against new forms of dissent, hostility, and automation anxiety, producing a distant reading of contemporary hostility. At once an acute response to urgent concerns around toxic digital cultures, an accounting with media archaeology as a mode of medium theory, and a series of original and methodologically fluid case studies, this book crosses an interdisciplinary research field including cultural studies, media studies, medium studies, critical theory, literary and science fiction studies, media archaeology, medium theory, cultural history, technology history.
Anti-computing: a provisional taxonomy
Discontinuous continuity: how anti-computing time-travels
A most political performance: treachery, the archive, and the database
No special pleading: Arendt, automation, and the cybercultural revolution
Polemical acts of rare extremism: Two Cultures and a hat
Apostasy in the temple of technology: ELIZA the more than mechanical therapist
Those in love with quantum filth: science fiction, singularity, and the flesh
Conclusion: Upping the anti: a distant reading of the contemporary moment
Index