Geoghegan Code

From Information Theory to French Theory
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2363-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Sign, Storage, Transmission

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Geoghegan, Bernard Dionysius

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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