ISBN:
9781478023630
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (271 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Sign, Storage, Transmission Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.4833
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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.
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478023630?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478023630
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