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Code : From Information Theory to French Theory

1st ed.

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023 [©2022]

1 online resource (271 pages)

Englisch

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978-1-4780-2363-0

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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan traces the shared intellectual and political history of computer scientists, cyberneticists, anthropologists, linguists, and theorists across the humanities as they developed a communication and computational-based theory that grasped culture and society in terms of codes.

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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Codification -- One: Foundations for Informatics: Technocracy, Philanthropy, and Communication Science -- Two: Pattern Recognition: Data Capture in Colonies, Clinics, and Suburbs -- Three: Poeticizing Cybernetics: An Informatic Infrastructure for Structural Linguistics -- Four: Theory for Administrators: The Ambivalent Technocracy of Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Five: Learning to Code: Cybernetics and French Theory -- Conclusion: Coding Today: Toward an Analysis of Cultural Analytics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.