Anti-computing : Dissent and the Machine

We live in a moment of high anxiety around digital transformation. Computers are blamed for generating toxic forms of culture and ways of life. Once part of future imaginaries that were optimistic or even utopian, today there is a sense that things have turned out very differently. Anti-computing is...

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Autor principal: Caroline Bassett
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Publicado: Manchester University Press 2021
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