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Sign, Storage, Transmission Ser.: Code : From Information Theory to French Theory by Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan (2023, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-10147801900X
ISBN-139781478019008
eBay Product ID (ePID)6057291260
Product Key Features
Number of Pages272 Pages
Publication NameCode : from Information Theory to French Theory
LanguageEnglish
SubjectMedia Studies, General, History
Publication Year2023
TypeTextbook
AuthorBernard Dionysius Geoghegan
Subject AreaSocial Science, Science, Education
SeriesSign, Storage, Transmission Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight13.6 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2022-020276
ReviewsGeoghegan's rich and surprising account of the common inheritance shared by information theory and French Theory in the era of liberal technocracy, industrial capitalism, and colonial crisis will change how we think about the nature, risks, and possibilities of data analytics, critical theory, and the digital humanities now and for years to come., Bernard Geoghegan's Code presents a strong history of how the humanities of the 20th century worked in close connection with communication and information sciences ... a rich and insightful analysis., Straying away from the familiar itineraries of intellectual history, Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan invites us to take a path less trodden: a detour that allows the reader to revisit famous milestones in the development of cybernetics and digital media, and to connect them to scholarly debates stemming from fields of study as distant as structural anthropology, family therapy, and literary semiology., Anyone interested in the political and ethical dimensions of cybernetics and contemporary social networking will be fascinated by Geoghegan's rich historical and interpretive account of these important and timely subjects. Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students and faculty. Students in two-year technical programs., This volume will be of interest to scholars, teachers, and students in media and communication studies, anthropology, history of knowledge and ideas, critical data studies, and the humanities more generally. Its lucid style, the focus on personal biographies and relations, as well as the detailed explanation of its use of theoretical and disciplinary concepts in the introduction, make it accessible to the general readership with no prior knowledge of the history of cybernetics.
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal303.4833
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments 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
SynopsisBernard 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., 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 Lévi-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.
LC Classification NumberAZ105.G464 2022
