Computing Legacies

“Computing Legacies deftly interrogates and synthesizes technical computer engineering literature with contemporary media studies scholarship to demonstrate how simulation and emulation are transforming the nature of cultural memory and history.”—Trevor Owens, Chief Research Officer, American Institute of Physics; author of The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation and After Disruption“Computing Legacies places simulation at the center of digital culture. It is a must-read for anyone interested in what happens when we humans seek help from computers to grasp what is happening around us.”—Henry Lowood, Harold C. Hohbach Curator, History of Science & Technology Collections, Stanford University“This invaluable book illuminates how computers came to be mirror worlds for doubling and troubling our deepest mathematical, scientific, and cultural assumptions about what we know and how we know it.”—Stefan Helmreich, author of Silicon Second Nature

Peter Krapp is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine, where he is also affiliated with the departments of English, Music, and Informatics.