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Anti-computing explores forgotten histories and contemporary forms of dissent – moments when the imposition of computational technologies, logics, techniques, imaginaries, utopias have been questioned, disputed, or refused. It also asks why these moments tend to be forgotten. What is it about computational capitalism that means we live so much in the present? What has this to do with computational logics and practices themselves?
This book addresses these issues through a critical engagement with media archaeology and medium theory and by way of a series of original studies; exploring Hannah Arendt and early automation anxiety, witnessing and the database, Two Cultures from the inside out, bot fear, singularity and/as science fiction. Finally, it returns to remap long-standing concerns against new forms of dissent, hostility, and automation anxiety, producing a distant reading of contemporary hostility.
At once an acute response to urgent concerns around toxic digital cultures, an accounting with media archaeology as a mode of medium theory, and a series of original and methodologically fluid case studies, this book crosses an interdisciplinary research field including cultural studies, media studies, medium studies, critical theory, literary and science fiction studies, media archaeology, medium theory, cultural history, technology history.
Anti-computing punctuates computational advances; the rush ahead, the demand to be wanted, the claims for progress, and for progress as automatically good. Anti-computing is a pause, a stop, a refusal, an objection, a sense, an emotion, a response, a popular campaign, a letter, an essay, a code-work, a theorist, a sensibility, an ambience, an absolute hostility, a reasoned objection, a glitch, a hesitation, an ambient dislike. It may be articulated by a human, a crowd, a network, or by a program that refuses to run. It may also be an element
years of his life at the University. Though Turing had not been involved in the Baby's creation, arriving only in October 1948, his work soon afterwards – in particular, his famous predictions about machine intelligence – seems an obvious feature of the Manchester computing story today. The reasons for Turing's exclusion lie partly in relatively straightforward departmental and interpersonal politics; yet there is a richer underlying story about conflicting visions of what counted as significant, and what counted as specifically Mancunian. The engineers who set the
, where k is the number of times two rows have been exchanged in the reduction process. Example 1 Compute det A , where A
circular functions, which we shall apply to economic dynamics in the next chapter. When you have studied this chapter you will be able to : add, subtract and multiply complex numbers; use conjugacy to find the real and imaginary parts of a ratio of complex numbers; compute powers of
Quadratic functions and equations. Maximisation and minimisation of quadratic functions. Indices and power functions. Manipulation expressions involving indices. Logarithms.
. To find and classify the critical points, we begin by computing the gradient and Hessian in the usual way: D f ( x , y
x and not the one marked EXP , which computes powers of 1 0 . Formulae for continuous compounding and discounting