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Beautiful data : a history of vision and reason since 1945 / Orit Halpern.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Halpern, Orit, 1972-
- Series:
- Experimental futures.
- Experimental futures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cybernetics.
- Big data.
- Perception.
- Cognition.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div><I>Beautiful Data</I> is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second half of the twentieth century.</div>
- Contents:
- Prologue: Speculating on sense
- Introduction: Dreams for our perceptual present
- Dreams for the perceptual present : temporality, storage, and interactivity in cybernetics
- Communicative objectivity : design, knowledge, and the interface
- The measure of reason and the art of visualization : transforming rationality, method, and logic in the social and human sciences
- The governance of sense: designing information and reconfiguring population circa 1959.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822357445
- 0822357445
- 9780822376323
- 0822376326
- OCLC:
- 1141499638
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