Orit Halpern

Beautiful Data

A History of Vision and Reason since 1945

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 627g
• ISBN-13: 9780822357308
• ISBN-10: 0822357305
• Artikelnr.: 40701434

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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