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Server : a media history from the present to the Baroque / Markus Krajewski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Krajewski, Markus, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Der Diener. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Information technology--Social aspects.
- Information technology.
- Web hosting.
- Web servers.
- Client/server computing.
- Electronic mail systems.
- Information society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 441 pages) : illustrations, map
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction to the English Edition: Jeeves Transatlantic
- Introduction: Listen, James
- Part One. Objects: Assistants, Analog
- Part Two. The Interregnum of the Subject
- Part Three. Diener, Digital
- Epilogue. Idle Time
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Originally published as Der Diener: Mediengeschichte einer Figur zwischen König und Klient.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-425) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-300-18680-0
- OCLC:
- 1125188435
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