Markus Krajewski Book order
Markus Krajewski is a professor of media history whose work focuses on the history of information and its representation. He explores how people in the past sought to organize and share knowledge through various systems, from paper cards to digital technologies. His research uncovers fascinating connections between technological advancements and the ways we understand and process the world.
- 2020
- 2018
The server
- 456 pages
- 16 hours of reading
Though classic servants like the butler or the governess have largely vanished, the Internet is filled with servers: web, ftp, mail, and others perform their daily drudgery, going about their business noiselessly and unnoticed. Why then are current-day digital drudges called servers? Markus Krajewski explores this question by going from the present back to the Baroque to study historical aspects of service through various perspectives, be it the servants' relationship to architecture or their function in literary or scientific contexts. At the intersection of media studies, cultural history, and literature, this work recounts the gradual transition of agency from human to nonhuman actors to show how the concept of the digital server stems from the classic role of the servant
- 2011
Paper machines
- 215 pages
- 8 hours of reading
- 2011
Acceding to the WTO from a least-developed country perspective
- 258 pages
- 10 hours of reading
Acceding to the World Trade Organization (WTO) entails enormous challenges for developing countries, in particular least-developed ones such as the effects of market opening and international competition on the local economy as well as fundamental aspects of law and regulatory reform. The present volume addresses these questions from the perspective of Ethiopia, which is negotiating its accession to the WTO since 2003. Topics addressed include the effects of WTO law on agriculture, intellectual property rights and financial market regulation as well as regional integration in Africa. The book is not only of interest from the Ethiopian perspective, but will appeal to all interested in the impact of world trade law on developing countries.