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Code - From Information Theory to French Theory (Hardcover)
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Code - From Information Theory to French Theory (Hardcover)
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In Code Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reconstructs how Progressive
Era technocracy as well as crises of industrial democracy and
colonialism shaped early accounts of cybernetics and digital media
by theorists including Norbert Wiener, Warren Weaver, Margaret
Mead, Gregory Bateson, Claude Levi-Strauss, Roman Jakobson, Jacques
Lacan, Roland Barthes, and Luce Irigaray. His analysis casts light
on how media-practical research forged common epistemic cause in
programs that stretched from 1930s interwar computing at MIT and
eugenics to the proliferation of seminars and laboratories in 1960s
Paris. This mobilization ushered forth new fields of study such as
structural anthropology, family therapy, and literary semiology
while forming enduring intellectual affinities between the
humanities and informatics. With Code, Geoghegan offers a new
history of French theory and the digital humanities as
transcontinental and political endeavors linking interwar colonial
ethnography in Dutch Bali to French sciences in the throes of Cold
War-era decolonization and modernization.
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