Abstractions and Embodiments by Janet Abbate PAPERBACK 9781421444376

Abstractions and Embodiments\nby Janet Abbate\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Janet Abbate\nTitle: Abstractions and Embodiments\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of engineering and technology\nPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press\nPublication year: 2022\nISBN-13: 9781421444376\nISBN-10: 1421444372\nRRP: \u00A333.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nCutting-edge historians explore ideas, communities, and technologies around modern computing to explore how computers mediate social relations.\nComputers have been framed both as a mirror for the human mind and as an irreducible other that humanness is defined against, depending on different historical definitions of humanness. They can serve both liberation and.