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Anti-computing explores forgotten histories and contemporary forms of dissent – moments when the imposition of computational technologies, logics, techniques, imaginaries, utopias have been questioned, disputed, or refused. It also asks why these moments tend to be forgotten. What is it about computational capitalism that means we live so much in the present? What has this to do with computational logics and practices themselves? This book addresses these issues through a critical engagement with media archaeology and medium theory and by way of a series of original studies; exploring Hannah Arendt and early automation anxiety, witnessing and the database, Two Cultures from the inside out, bot fear, singularity and/as science fiction. Finally, it returns to remap long-standing concerns against new forms of dissent, hostility, and automation anxiety, producing a distant reading of contemporary hostility.At once an acute response to urgent concerns around toxic digital cultures, an accounting with media archaeology as a mode of medium theory, and a series of original and methodologically fluid case studies, this book crosses an interdisciplinary research field including cultural studies, media studies, medium studies, critical theory, literary and science fiction studies, media archaeology, medium theory, cultural history, technology history

Narrative provides a means by which to explore information technology and subjectivity in ways that offer insights into the possibilities for new forms of cyberfeminism. The author sets out to argue for an approach to cyberfeminism that stresses critique and transformation. The call made is for the restitution of cyberfeminism as a political project carried out by subjects who are increasingly connected to networks, but who remain able to act. Consideration of the subject as a narratable self, as someone who stretches before and after the moments of her technological interpellation, but who is also changed by it, is useful in conceptualising this subject. ; Besedilo priskrbi načine, s katerimi je mogoče raziskovati informacijsko tehnologijo in subjektivnost na načine, ki ponujajo vpoglede v možnosti za nastanek novih oblik kiberfeminizma. Avtorica zagovarja pristop k kiberfeminizmu, ki namenja poudarek kritiki in preobrazbi. Zavzema se za vzpostavitev kiberfeminizma kot političnega projekta; izvajajo ga subjekti, ki so vse bolj povezani v omrežja, in vendar ohranjajo zmožnost delovanja. Pri snovanju tega subjekta je ključen razmislek o subjektu kot pripovedujočem jazu, kot o nekom, ki se razteza pred in po trenutkih svoje tehnološke interpelacije, ki ga je obenem tudi spremenila.

Antinoise is a technical term for various noise-canceling technologies and a label applied to human antinoise campaigners. But antinoise connects rather than divides human and machines; antinoise techniques are completed in the ear, while human-initiated antinoise actions and classifications require and enroll sonic technology of various kinds. Modes of hearing are thus embodied and exteriorized in new ways, and the automated ear and the supplemented machine may figure, not necessarily on opposite sides, in sonically articulated struggles for space. This article explores a series of sonic regimes, articulated across bodies and machines in variously historically freighted micro-locations, asking how a particular order of sound might order or enclose spaces. Under consideration are antinoise campaigners on trains, Mosquito sonic management devices, and a glossolaliac artwork (smSage) that might open a utopian space of sonic solidarity. The attempt, following Attali, to understand a new political economy of noise through a consideration of what might constitute various forms of common space is made, first, in order to investigate and expose the contemporary significance to politics of questions of what stands before meaning—this is a politics of noise and speech, rather than one focusing on speech and language. Second, the article keys in to a certain reorganization of the senses emerging in contemporary, pervasively mediated ecology—seeking to outline what might be termed a reprioritization of the sonic.

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.