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

by Markus Krajewski

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300180810
• ISBN13: 9780300180817
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.3"