- Additional Authors
- Iurascu, Ilinca.
- Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 441 pages) : illustrations, map.
- Summary
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Diener. English (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Diener.
- Subject
- Note
- Originally published as Der Diener: Mediengeschichte einer Figur zwischen König und Klient.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-425) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction: Listen, James -- Part I. Objects: assistants, analog. Masters/servants: everyone is a subaltern ; The servant as information center ; In waiting -- Part II. The interregnum of the subject. Holding the reins: on demons and other ministering spirits of science ; Channel service ; At the stove -- Part III. Diener, digital. Agents: the lord of (the) things.
- LCCN
- 2017952552
- OCLC
- ssj0002093032
- Author
Krajewski, Markus, 1972-
- Title
The server [electronic resource] : a media history from the present to the Baroque / Markus Krajewski ; translated and with an introduction by Ilinca Iurascu.
- Imprint
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-425) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Iurascu, Ilinca.