Halpern Beautiful Data

A History of Vision and Reason since 1945
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7632-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Reihe: Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices

Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second half of the twentieth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Halpern, Orit

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Prologue. Speculating on Sense 1

Introduction. Dreams for Our Perceptual Present 9

1. Archiving. Temporality, Storage, and Interactivity in Cybernetics 39

2. Visualizing. Design, Communicative Objectivity, and the Interface 79

3. Rationalizing. Cognition, Time, and Logic in the Social and Behavioral Sciences 145

4. Governing. Designing Information and Reconfiguring Population circa 1959 199

Conclusion 239

Epilogue 251

Notes 271

Bibliography 307

Index 327

Über Autor(innen)

Orit Halpern is Assistant Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College.