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Advocates of computers make sweeping claims for their inherently transformative power: new and different from previous technologies, they are sure to resolve many of our existing social problems, and perhaps even to cause a positive political revolution. In The Cultural Logic of Computation, David G...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Golumbia, David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Computer > Veranstaltung
Computers > Social aspects.
Computer Science
Computer Sciences, other
Computer
Gesellschaft
Social Sciences
Sozialer Wandel
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
Ordinateurs > Aspect social.
COMPUTERS > Social Aspects > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civil Rights.
Computers > Social aspects
Datorer > sociala aspekter.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The cultural functions of computation
  • Chomsky's computationalism
  • Genealogies of philosophical functionalism
  • Computationalist linguistics
  • Linguistic computationalism
  • Computation, globalization, and cultural striation
  • Computationalism, striation, and cultural authority
  • Computationalism and political individualism
  • Computationalism and political authority
  • Epilogue: Computers without computationalism.

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