The Server: A Media History from the Present to the Baroque

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Yale University Press, 2018

0300180810 / 9780300180817

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HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date of Publication: 2018* Publisher: Yale University Press. * Binding and cover condition: Red cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps, minor rubs to top rear edge, no other visible faults. No shelf wear. VG+.* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing a picture by Heath Robinson. Maroon and black titles to spine and face. Reduced in height but NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing no shelf price. No marks or shelf wear. Now in clear un-attached protective wrapper. VG.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no marks or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: A few b/w photo illustrations within text throughout. * Pages: 356 pp. text. c-i pp. notes, bibliography, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: 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.* A VG copy of the 1st/1st fnl. with MINOR faults to back board and protected dust jacket.*. …

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Titolo
The Server: A Media History from the Present to the Baroque
Autore
Krajewski., Markus
Editore
Yale University Press
Anno di pubblicazione
2018
Condizione
F/F/F
Sovraccoperta
Fine
Rilegatura
Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0300180810
ISBN 13
9780300180817
Edizione
1st. Edn, 1st. Imp. FNL.
Stampa
1st Printing
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