E-raamat: Server: A Media History from the Present to the Baroque

In this rich genealogy of the concept of the server Krajewski blends literary and historical evidence and media studiesbrilliantly thought-provoking!Ann Blair, author of Too Much To Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age    -- Ann Blair The Server is an intellectual romp, a learned and literate account of proxy servers, mailer daemons, and an astonishing parade of historical factotums and underlings that presaged todays client-server logic. This is the history of agential knowingin short, of mediadressed in livery, waiting on call, at your service. Lisa Gitelman, New York University -- Lisa Gitelman Markus Krajewski has rescued from neglect a whole cast of characterssuch go-betweens as demons, angels, bookkeepers, and doorkeepersto show them in all their rollicking mischievousness. This book is at once a literary, social, semantic, and technical historythat is, a media history, and it casts a fresh and strange light on our moment.John Durham Peters, Yale University   -- John Durham Peters Descartes once proudly proclaimed that humans should understand themselves as 'masters and owners of nature.' Since then, most philosophers consider knowledge as emerging from rational, cognitive, and discursive structures. Krajewskis stunningly original book finds it elsewhere--upending our common understanding of science, technology, and political philosophy--by showing that knowledge depends of the successful exploitation of the lowliest of the low. Jimena Canales, author of The Physicist and the Philosopher   -- Jimena Canales A breathtaking display of erudition, Markus Krajewski's The Server weaves together history, literature, and media theory into a potent critique of the governing metaphors of the digital age. Daniel Rosenberg, coauthor of  Cartographies of Time   -- Daniel Rosenberg