Queer techné : bodies, rhetorics, and desire in the history of computing / Patricia Fancher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fancher, Patricia, author.

Series:

Studies in writing & rhetoric

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computers--History.

Computers.

Computer science--History.

Computer science.

Physical Description:

ix, 149 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Champaign, Illinois : National Council of Teachers of English, [2024]

Summary:

This book offers an intimate portrait of the practices, embodied knowledge, desires, and friendships that animate the technical innovation of early digital computing. It explores archival materials from the Manchester University National Archive for the History of Computing, the site of some of the earliest digital computers and the first commercial computer. It first analyzes in depth the technical and scientific writing of Alan Turing, then places Turing's work in context.

Contents:

1. Queer Techné

2. Embodying Turing's machine

3. Queer Techné as friendship

4. Embodied Techné of women computers

5. Conclusion : queer Techné as archival methodology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0814101739

9780814101735

OCLC:

1419681553

Publisher Number:

99996721969