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""Stephen Monteiro's beautifully researched study explores the many historical connections between textiles, coding, gendered practices of domestic labor, other craft-based activity, and the development of computer code. Stressing these dimensions of tactile and dexterous underpinnings, Monteiro makes a strong argument for the political dimensions of embodied labor and physicality that infuse our contemporary relationship with electronic devices. An excellent contribution to the study of the materiality of computing, with a unique viewpoint built on rich archival sources."" --Johanna Drucker, Breslauer Professor of Information Studies, UCLA ""This is an elegant treatment of digital culture as intermeshed with textile analogs, always turning toward the materiality and tactility latent within seeming immateriality."" --Branden Hookway, author of Interface

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Stephen Monteiro is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University, Montreal.

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