| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 441 pages) : illustrations |
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Degruyterct |
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Degruyterct
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction to the English Edition: Jeeves Transatlantic Ilinca Iurascu; Introduction: Listen; Part One: Objects: Assistants, Analog; 1 Masters / Servants: Everyone Is a Subaltern; 2 The Servant as Information Center; 3 In Waiting; Part Two: The Interregnum of the Subject; 4 Holding the Reins: On Demons and Other Ministering Spiritsof Science; 5 Channel Service; 6 At the Stove; Part Three: Diener, Digital; 7 Agents: The Lord of (the) Things; Epilogue: Idle Time; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O |
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PQ; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
| Summary |
A cutting edge media history on a perennially fascinating topic, which attempts to answer the crucial question: Who is in charge, the servant or the master? 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 |
| Notes |
Translated from the German |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 20, 2018) |
| Subject |
Information technology -- Social aspects
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Web hosting.
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Web servers.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Information technology -- Social aspects
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Web hosting
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Web servers
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Iurascu, Ilinca, translator writer of introduction
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| ISBN |
9780300186802 |
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0300186800 |
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