Jason Puskar

The Switch

An Off and on History of Digital Humans

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Produktbeschreibung

"The Switch traces the rise of a technology that has transformed everyday life for billions of people: the binary switch. Chronicling its rapid growth since the mid-nineteenth century, Jason Puskar moves beyond a technical history to offer a cultural and political analysis of how reducing so much human action to binary alternatives has profoundly reshaped modern society"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 174mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9781517915407
• ISBN-10: 1517915406
• Artikelnr.: 67739571

Autorenporträt

Jason Puskar is professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He is author of Accident Society: Fiction, Collectivity, and the Production of Chance.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Awake at the Switch
Part I. Start
1. Origin Stories
2. Designing the Button
3. Analogs and Analogies
Part II. Digital Bodies
4. The Point of Touch
5. Counting on the Body
6. Darth Vader’s Nipples
Part III. Keyboard Rationality
7. The Keyboard’s Checkered Past
8. Human Types
9. Chording and Coding
10. The Archaeology of Qwerty
Part IV. Objects of Play
11. The Toys of Dionysus
12. Pinball Wizards
Part V. Haptic Liberalism
13. The Control Panel of Democracy
14. Switching Philosophies
15. Pistolgraphs
16. First-Person Shooters
Epilogue: Self-Destruct
Notes
Index