Kris Cohen

The Human in Bits

Graphical Computers, Black Abstractions

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Produktbeschreibung

Kris Cohen examines black abstractionist painting to demonstrate how race and computation are intimately entangled in the graphic user interface of the personal computer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781478032090
• ISBN-10: 147803209X
• Artikelnr.: 73731811

Autorenporträt

Kris Cohen is Jane Neuberger Goodsell Professor of Art History and Humanities at Reed College and author of Never Alone, Except for Now: Art, Networks, Populations, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: The Human in Bits 1
1. Operational Processes: Leo Steinberg 37
2. In, Around, Above, Behind, and Other Forms of Space Flight: Alma Thomas
52
3. Nonrelational Blackness: Jack Whitten 74
4. Modernity and Fungibility: Charles Gaines 110
5. Infrastructures of Containment: Julie Mehretu 124
Coda: Resistance and Standing 150
Notes 161
Bibliography 179
Index 193