Information

A Reader
Herausgeber: Detwyler, Anatoly; Pao, Lea; Hayot, Eric

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Produktbeschreibung

Information: A Reader provides an introduction to the concept of information in historical, literary, and cultural studies. It features excerpts from more than forty texts by theorists and critics who have helped establish the notion of the â information ageâ or expand upon it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 233mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9780231186216
• ISBN-10: 0231186215
• Artikelnr.: 59985318

Autorenporträt

Edited by Eric Hayot, Anatoly Detwyler, Lea Pao

Inhaltsangabe

An Introduction
The Shannon Knot
1. Claude Shannon, from A Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948)
2. Norbert Wiener, from Cybernetics; or, Control and Communication in the
Animal and the Machine (1948)
3. Harold Garfinkel, from Toward a Sociological Theory of Information
(1952)
4. Donald MacKay, from "The Place of 'Meaning' in the Theory of
Information" (1955)
5. Claude Shannon, "The Bandwagon" (1956)
6. Gregory Bateson, from "The Cybernetics of 'Self ': A Theory of
Alcoholism" (1972)
7. John Durham Peters, from "Information: Notes Toward a Critical History"
(1988)
8. N. Katherine Hayles, from "Contesting for the Body of Information: The
Macy Conferences on Cybernetics" (1999)
9. Peter Janich, from What Is Information? (2006)
10. Matthieu Triclot, from The Cybernetic Moment (2008)
Order, Number
1. Michel Foucault, from The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human
Sciences (1966)
2. Mary Poovey, from A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in
the Sciences of Wealth and Society (1998)
3. Ian Hacking, from The Taming of Chance (1990)
4. Thomas Richards, from The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of
Empire (1994)
5. Friedrich Hayek, from "The Use of Knowledge in Society" (1945)
6. Claude Lévi-Strauss, from "The Mathematics of Man" (1954)
7. Lily Kay, from Who Wrote the Book of Life? A History of the Genetic Code
(2000)
The Work of Art
1. Martin Heidegger, from "The Origin of the Work of Art" (1950)
2. Walter Benjamin, from "The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of
Nikolai Leskov" (1936)
3. Yuri M. Lotman, "The Future for Structural Poetics" (1979)
4. Abraham Moles, from Information Theory and Esthetic Perception (1958)
5. Haroldo De Campos, from "The Informational Temperature of the Text"
(1960)
6. Umberto Eco, from The Open Work (1962)
7. William R. Paulson, from The Noise of Culture: Literary Texts in a World
of Information (1988)
Media Ecologies
1. Frances Yates, from The Art of Memory (1966)
2. Mary J. Carruthers, from "Ars oblivionalis, ars inveniendi: The Cherub
Figure and the Arts of Memory" (2009)
3. Michael E. Hobart and Zachary S. Schiffman, from Information Ages:
Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution (1998)
4. Walter Ong, from Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word
(1982)
5. Sigmund Freud, from "A Note Upon the 'Mystic Writing-Pad' " (1925)
6. Vannevar Bush, from "As We May Think" (1945)
7. Marshall McLuhan, from Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
(1964)
8. Friedrich Kittler, from "There Is No Software" (1993)
9. Vilém Flusser, from Form and Material (1993) and Recoding (1987)
10. Lisa Gitelman, from Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of
Documents (2014)
Informed Society
1. James Beniger, from The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic
Origins of the Information Society (1986)
2. Yoneji Masuda, from The Information Society as Post-Industrial Society
(1981)
3 Paul Virilio, from The Information Bomb (1999)
4. C. A. Bayly, from Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and
Social Communication in India, 1780-1870 (1996)
5. Mary Elizabeth Berry, from Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the
Early Modern Period (2006)
6. Ann Blair, from Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before
the Modern Age (2010)
7. Elias Muhanna, from "Why Was the Fourteenth Century a Century of Arabic
Encyclopaedism?" (2013)
8. Steven Marks, from The Information Nexus: Global Capitalism from the
Renaissance to the Present (2016)
Acknowledgments
Index