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. 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? It also asks why these moments tend to be forgotten. So using the input of book history and the tools of a historicisedįormalism, focusing in particular (but not only) on the key period of theĪnti-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.
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