Abstractions and Embodiments Megan Bradley Thorfinn and his boisterous brothers

Thorfinn and his boisterous brothers chase the mysterious raiders across the North Sea towards Scotland

Stephen Muecke

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both setting the field in historical and theoretical context

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Abstractions and Embodiments Megan Bradley Thorfinn and his boisterous brothersCutting edge historians explore ideas, communities, and technologies around modern computing to explore how computers mediate social relations. Computers have been framed both as a mirror for the human mind and as an irreducible other that humanness is defined against, depending on different historical definitions of "humanness." They can serve both liberation and control because some people's freedom has historically been predicated on controlling