The server: A media history from the present to the Baroque

Krajewski M, Iurascu I (2018)

Publication Type: Authored book

Publication year: 2018

Publisher: Yale University Press

ISBN: 9780300186802

Abstract

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.

Authors with CRIS profile

Markus Krajewski

Involved external institutions

Universität Basel CH Switzerland (CH) University of British Columbia CA Canada (CA)

How to cite

APA:

Krajewski, M., & Iurascu, I. (2018). The server: A media history from the present to the Baroque. Yale University Press.

MLA:

Krajewski, Markus, and Ilinca Iurascu. The server: A media history from the present to the Baroque. Yale University Press, 2018.

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