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"In Code Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reconstructs how Progressive Era technocracy as well as crises of industrial democracy and colonialism shaped early accounts of cybernetics and digital media by theorists including Norbert Wiener, Warren Weaver, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Claude Lévi-S...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Geoghegan, Bernard Dionysius, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Series:Sign, storage, transmission.
Subjects:
Digital humanities > Political aspects.
Digital humanities > Social aspects.
Digital media > Social aspects.
Digital media > Political aspects.
Humanities > Methodology.
Cybernetics > Political aspects.
Cybernetics > Social aspects.
Information society.
Technology and civilization.
Sciences humaines numériques > Aspect politique.
Sciences humaines numériques > Aspect social.
Cybernétique > Aspect politique.
Cybernétique > Aspect social.
Société de l'information.
Technologie et civilisation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
SCIENCE / History.
Cybernetics > Social aspects
Digital media > Political aspects
Digital media > Social aspects
Humanities > Methodology
Information society
Technology and civilization
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Codification
  • Foundations for Informatics: Technocracy, Philanthropy, and the Communications Science
  • Pattern Recognition: Data Capture in Colonies, Clinics, and Suburbs
  • Poeticizing Cybernetics: An Informatic Infrastructure for Structural Linguistics
  • Theory for Administrators: The Ambivalent Technocracy of Claude Lévi-Strauss
  • Learning to Code: Cybernetics and French Theory
  • Coding Today: Toward an Analysis of Cultural Analytics.

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