<div dir="ltr">On a semi-related query, has there been much race-, gender-, or class-related discussion around the cultural logic or social context of the development or reception of BASIC?<div><br></div><div>I could imagine that fitting into a larger conversation on class, institutions, social action, and (possibly) accusations of paternalism given its Sixties-era development and Dartmouth origins. Just curious -- I admittedly know far less than I should about the dissemination of programming languages. <div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Andrew</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --<br>Andrew Meade McGee<br>Corcoran Department of History<br>University of Virginia<br>PO Box 400180 - Nau Hall<br>Charlottesville, VA 22904</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Nabeel Siddiqui <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nasiddiqui@email.wm.edu" target="_blank">nasiddiqui@email.wm.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Helvetica">I assign it in my course to discuss race with students, but it does have its problems, specifically correlation vs causality. While the article doesn't get into it, I think it adds to David Golumbia's <i>Cultural Logic of Computation</i> on how computation provides a set of ideas and metaphors for people to think about the world around them. The Digital Humanities part is actually a part that was tacked on and doesn't really add much to the article. </p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Helvetica"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Helvetica">Originally, the article was release as "U.S. Operating System at Mid-Century" in <i>Race After the Internet</i>, edited by Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White. Link to the original article's pdf here: <a href="http://history.msu.edu/hst830/files/2014/01/McPherson_2012.pdf" target="_blank">http://history.msu.edu/hst830/files/2014/01/McPherson_2012.pdf</a></p></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Janet Abbate <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abbate@vt.edu" target="_blank">abbate@vt.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Anyone seen this piece by Tara Mcpherson? It starts with some interesting questions, but I found the follow-through to be disappointingly ahistorical. Again and again she argues that there must be a connection between the modularity of Unix and the compartmentalization of race within American culture, but then immediately admits that she has no evidence for any direct connection. As far as I can tell, the only reason she singles out Unix is because it coincides conveniently with the US Civil Rights era. I'm curious to know what others think.<br>
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