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From Information Theory to French Theory
1st Edition
Published on 9. December 2022
272 pages
978-1-4780-2363-0 (ISBN)
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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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01/2023
Duke University Press
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan is Senior Lecturer in the History and Theory of Digital Media at King's College London.
Content
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
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
