{"product_id":"a-will-for-the-machine-computerization-automation-and-the-arts-in-south-africa-paperback","title":"A Will for the Machine: Computerization, Automation, and the Arts in South Africa - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Sanders\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis study takes up the relations among computerization, labor, and the arts in South Africa.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e There are many books about the history and discourses of computerization in the United States but relatively little about these phenomena anywhere in the Global South. In \u003ci\u003eA Will for the Machine\u003c\/i\u003e, Mark Sanders outlines South Africa's entry into the computer age in the 1960s and '70s and explains how it coincided with the high point of apartheid. South Africa's government viewed automation and computerization as one way of barring Black Africans from skilled work and reserving it for whites. Sanders unpacks this peculiar history, relates it to early twentieth-century struggles around mechanization in mining and telephony in South Africa, and analyzes responses to it by the writers Miriam Tlali and J. M. Coetzee, the artist William Kentridge, and Handspring Puppet Company. Showing how the arts realize ideas about the ethics and politics of automation, Sanders contributes to debates about locally divergent understandings of computer technology and human-computer interaction.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Sanders\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of comparative literature and English at New York University. He is the author of four books, including \u003ci\u003eLearning Zulu: A Secret History of Language in South Africa\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmbiguities of Witnessing: Law and Literature in the Time of a Truth Commission\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eComplicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.48 x 5.61 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 30, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53062614057267,"sku":"9780226844619","price":58.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/TtceUvnBN99780226844619.webp?v=1771441799","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/a-will-for-the-machine-computerization-automation-and-the-arts-in-south-africa-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}