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Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society Teachers' classroom resources & material Simone’s quiet life in herCutting edge historians explore ideas, communities, and technologies around modern computing to explore how computers mediate social relations. Computers have been framed both as a mirror for the human mind and as an irreducible other that humanness is defined against, depending on different historical definitions of "humanness." They can serve both liberation and control because some people's freedom has historically been predicated on controlling