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The server : a media history from the present to the Baroque

Krajewski, Markus, 1972- author, Iurascu, Ilinca, translator, writer of introduction

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Subject: Information technology Social aspects. / Web hosting. / Web servers. / Automat / Diener / Transformation / Kultur / 54.01 history of computer science.
• ISBN: 9780300180817, 0300180810

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HM851.K7313 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE