The Comedy of Computation: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Obsolescence

Author:   Benjamin Mangrum
Publisher:   Stanford University Press
Edition:   New edition
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9781503643109


Pages:   276
Publication Date:   29 July 2025
Format:   Paperback
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The Comedy of Computation: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Obsolescence


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Author:   Benjamin Mangrum
Publisher:   Stanford University Press
Imprint:   Stanford University Press
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781503643109


ISBN 10:   1503643107
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   29 July 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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""Essential for understanding the technological world in its complexity, absurdity, and vibrancy. Never satisfied with cheap laughs, Mangrum reads across culture in the widest sense, and knows exactly when to take his subjects seriously—for their sake and our own."" —Mark Goble, University of California, Berkeley ""Mangrum helps readers understand that anxieties about automation are old, not new, and that arts and culture play an essential role in the conversation around computation. An important and illuminating work for scholars of American literature and cultural studies."" —Aarthi Vadde, Duke University


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Benjamin Mangrum is Associate Professor of Literature at MIT and author of Land of Tomorrow: Postwar Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism (2019), winner of the Louis I. Bredvold Prize in 2019, awarded by the University of Michigan.

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