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The Art of Interpretation in the Age of Computation (Hardcover)
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The Art of Interpretation in the Age of Computation (Hardcover)
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This book is about media, mediation, and meaning. The Art of
Interpretation focuses on a set of interrelated processes whereby
ostensibly human-specific modes of meaning become automated by
machines, formatted by protocols, and networked by infrastructures.
That is, as computation replaces interpretation, information
effaces meaning, and infrastructure displaces interaction. Or so it
seems. Paul Kockelman asks: What does it take to automate, format,
and network meaningful practices? What difference does this make
for those who engage in such practices? And what is at stake?
Reciprocally: How can we better understand computational processes
from the standpoint of meaningful practices? How can we leverage
such processes to better understand such practices? And what lies
in wait? In answering these questions, Kockelman stays very close
to fundamental concerns of computer science that emerged in the
first half of the twentieth-century. Rather than foreground the
latest application, technology or interface, he accounts for
processes that underlie each and every digital technology deployed
today. In a novel method, The Art of Interpretation leverages key
ideas of American pragmatism-a philosophical stance that
understands the world, and our relation to it, in a way that avoids
many of the conundrums and criticisms of conventional
twentieth-century social theory. It puts this stance in dialogue
with certain currents, and key texts, in anthropology and
linguistics, science and technology studies, critical theory,
computer science, and media studies.
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