The Server: A Media History from the Present to the Baroque

by Markus Krajewski

Ilinca Iurascu (Translator)

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A cutting‑edge media history on a perennially fascinating topic, which attempts to answer the crucial question: Who is in charge, the servant or the master?​

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...Read more
  • ISBN10 0300180810
  • ISBN13 9780300180817
  • Publish Date 19 June 2018
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Yale University Press