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Beschreibung
As digital transformations continue to accelerate in the world, discourses of big data have come to dominate in a number of fields, from politics and economics, to media and education. But how can we really understand the digital world when so much of the writing through which we grapple with it remains deeply problematic? In a compelling new work of feminist critical theory, Bassett, Kember and O'Riordan scrutinise many of the assumptions of a masculinist digital world, highlighting the tendency of digital humanities scholarship to venerate and essentialise technical forms, and to adopt gendered writing and citation practices. Contesting these writings, practices and politics, the authors foreground feminist traditions and contributions to the field, offering alternative modes of knowledge production, and a radically different, poetic writing style. Through this prism, Furious brings into focus themes including the automation of home and domestic work, the Anthropocene, and intersectional feminist technofutures.
As digital transformations continue to accelerate in the world, discourses of big data have come to dominate in a number of fields, from politics and economics, to media and education. But how can we really understand the digital world when so much of the writing through which we grapple with it remains deeply problematic? In a compelling new work of feminist critical theory, Bassett, Kember and O'Riordan scrutinise many of the assumptions of a masculinist digital world, highlighting the tendency of digital humanities scholarship to venerate and essentialise technical forms, and to adopt gendered writing and citation practices. Contesting these writings, practices and politics, the authors foreground feminist traditions and contributions to the field, offering alternative modes of knowledge production, and a radically different, poetic writing style. Through this prism, Furious brings into focus themes including the automation of home and domestic work, the Anthropocene, and intersectional feminist technofutures.
Über den Autor
Caroline Bassett is Professor of Media and Communications at the School of Media Film and Music, University of Sussex, and Director of the Sussex Humanities Lab. She is the author of The Arc and the Machine (2007).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Series Preface

Acknowledgements

Preface

1. Feminist Futures: A Conditional Paeon for the Anything-Digital

2. Scale, Subject and Stories: Unreal Objects

3. Bland Ambition? Automation's Missing Visions

4. Driving at the Anthropocene, or, Let's Get Out of Here: How?

5. Technological Feminism and Digital Futures

Bibliography

Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Digital Barricades
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780745340500
ISBN-10: 0745340504
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bassett, Caroline
Kember, Sarah
O'Riordan, Kate
Hersteller: Pluto Press
Digital Barricades
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 8 mm
Von/Mit: Caroline Bassett (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.11.2019
Gewicht: 0,191 kg
Artikel-ID: 116815846

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