Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society Abbate Janet
Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society Abbate Janet Cutting-edge historians explore ideas, communities, and technologies around modern computing to explore how computers…
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Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society Abbate Janet
Cutting-edge historians explore ideas, communities, and technologies around modern computing to explore how computers mediate social relations.Computers have been framed both as a mirror for the human mind and as an irreducible other that humanness is defined against, depending on different historical definitions of humanness. Historians of computing return again and again to these contradictions, as they often reveal deeper structures.Using twin frameworks of abstraction and embodiment, a reformulation of the old mind-body dichotomy, this anthology examines how social relations are enacted in and through computing. They can serve both liberation and control because some people's freedom has historically been predicated on controlling others.
The authors examining Abstraction revisit central concepts in computing, including algorithm, program, clone, and risk. In