Ordbehandling som vansinne

Johan  Fredrikzon

doi:10.3384/sens.2002-3030.2016.1.27-43

Authors

Johan Fredrikzon

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3384/sens.2002-3030.2016.1.27-43

Abstract

Är ordbehandling ett oskyldigt hjälpmedel för att producera mer effektiv prosa? Nedslag i det datorstödda skrivandets historia tyder på en mer komplicerad syn.

Author Biography

Johan Fredrikzon

Johan Fredrikzon is a PhD candidate in the History of Ideas at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at the University of Stockholm. He holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science and a M.A. in the History of Ideas. Fredrikzon teaches classes on the major works of Foucault, the history of the critique of technology, and Nietzschean and Benjaminian theories of history. During 2018 he is a visiting assistant in research at Yale University under the supervision of Professor John Durham Peters. Fredrikzon's dissertational work adds to the history of big data by investigating the origins and applications of population and environmental surveillance in the 1970s asking how the environment became data and how data became environment.