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Issue 2.6 - Special Issue "Digital Metaphors" Previous Issues

The Electronic Heart

Sophie Jones December 4, 2013 2 Comments 2001: A Space Odyssey affective labour Antonio Negri Arlie Russell Hochschild computer computer-as-machine computer-as-woman Desk Set domestic labour electronic brains emotional labour emotional work ENIAC computer feminism gendered division of labour HAL history of computing information processing leisure time Marxism Michael Hardt post-Fordism queer theory Stanley Kubrick The Managed Heart

‘I can feel it’. HAL 9000, the supercomputer at the centre of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), makes this claim to emotional sensitivity moments before its higher functions are terminated by astronaut Dave Bowman, the sole surviving human aboard…

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