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Beautiful Data : A History of Vision and Reason since 1945 /

"Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second half of the twentieth century. Contending that our forms of attention, observation, and truth are contingent and contested, Orit Halpern historicizes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Halpern, Orit, 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Prologue : Speculating on sense
  • Introduction : Dreams for our perceptual present
  • Dreams for the perceptual present : temporality, storage, and interactivity in cybernetics
  • Communicative objectivity : design, knowledge, and the interface
  • The measure of reason and the art of visualization : transforming rationality, method, and logic in the social and human sciences
  • The governance of sense: designing information and reconfiguring population circa 1959.