Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan

Code

From Information Theory to French Theory

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Produktbeschreibung

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-Strauss, Roman Jakobson, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, and Luce Irigaray. His analysis casts light on how media-practical research forged common epistemic cause in programs that stretched from 1930s interwar computing at MIT and eugenics to the proliferation of seminars and laboratories in 1960s Paris. This mobilization ushered forth new fields of study such as structural anthropology, family therapy, and literary semiology while forming enduring intellectual affinities between the humanities and informatics. With Code, Geoghegan offers a new history of French theory and the digital humanities as transcontinental and political endeavors linking interwar colonial ethnography in Dutch Bali to French sciences in the throes of Cold War-era decolonization and modernization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 551g
• ISBN-13: 9781478016366
• ISBN-10: 1478016361
• Artikelnr.: 63429838

Autorenporträt

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan is Senior Lecturer in the History and Theory of Digital Media at King’s College London.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Codification  1
1. Foundations for Informatics: Technocracy, Philanthropy, and
Communications Sciences  21
2. Pattern Recognition: Data Capture in Colonies, Clinics, and Suburbs  53
3. Poeticizing Cybernetics: An Informatic Infrastructure for Structural
Linguistics  85
4. Theory for Administrators: The Ambivalent Technocracy of Claude
Lévi-Strauss  107
5. Learning to Code: Cybernetics and French Theory  133
Conclusion. Coding Today: Toward an Analysis of Cultural Analytics  169
Notes  181
Bibliography  221
Index  245