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171121t20182018maua b 001 0 eng |
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2017055846 |
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9780262038232 |
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(Cloth) |
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0262038234 |
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(Cloth) |
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(OCoLC)1013528597 |
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(coutts)cts22201903 |
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DLC |
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eng |
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rda |
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DLC |
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OCLCO |
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MiTN |
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pcc |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
TJ213.5 |
| Item number |
.P568 2018 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Plotnick, Rachel, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Power button : |
| Remainder of title |
a history of pleasure, panic, and the politics of pushing / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Rachel Plotnick. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
The MIT Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
[2018] |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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©2018. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xxvi, 394 pages : |
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illustrations ; |
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22 cm. |
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text |
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txt |
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rdacontent. |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia. |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Setting the stage -- Ringing for service -- Servants out of sight -- Distant effects -- We do the rest -- Let there be light -- What's a button good for? -- Anyone can push a button -- Push for your pleasure -- Conclusion. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Push a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and "like" something. The touch of a finger can set an appliance, a car, or a system in motion, even if the user doesn't understand the underlying mechanisms or algorithms. How did buttons become so ubiquitous? Why do people love them, loathe them, and fear them? In Power Button, Rachel Plotnick traces the origins of today's push-button society by examining how buttons have been made, distributed, used, rejected, and refashioned throughout history. Focusing on the period between 1880 and 1925, when "technologies of the hand" proliferated (including typewriters, telegraphs, and fingerprinting), Plotnick describes the ways that button pushing became a means for digital command, which promised effortless, discreet, and fool-proof control. Emphasizing the doubly digital nature of button pushing-as an act of the finger and a binary activity (on/off, up/down)-Plotnick suggests that the tenets of precomputational digital command anticipate contemporary ideas of computer users. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Remote control |
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Psychological aspects |
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History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Electric switchgear |
| General subdivision |
Psychological aspects |
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History. |
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Social psychology. |
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Industrial revolution. |
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Object (Philosophy) |