Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan

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From Information Theory to French Theory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Sign, Storage, Transmission
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781478019008
• ISBN-10: 147801900X
• Artikelnr.: 63431504

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