About Me!
Patricia Fancher is a writer, researcher, and educator studying queer and feminist communities. Her first book, Queer Techné: Bodies, Rhetorics, and Desire in the History of Computing shares the queer history of computing, shedding light on the communities that shaped early digital computers. She also writes creative non-fiction, with publications in The Sun, Huffington Post, LARB, and many others.
Queer Techné: Bodies, Rhetorics, and Desire in the History of Computing
Queer Techné offers an intimate portrait of the practices, embodied knowledge, desires, and friendships that animate the technical innovation of early digital computing.
“The great breakthroughs that Turing contributed to computing — such as his work on digital computers and his innovative thinking on artificial intelligence — all emerged in and through communities.”