The art of interpretation in the age of computation / Paul Kockelman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kockelman, Paul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics--Psychological aspects.

Semiotics.

Signs and symbols--Psychological aspects.

Signs and symbols.

Natural language processing (Computer science).

Ontologies (Information retrieval).

Information technology.

Anthropological linguistics.

Physical Description:

xiv, 231 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Contents:

1 Lines Crossed and Circles Breached 1

1.1 Semiotic Practices and Computational Processes 1

1.2 Lines (and How To Cross Them) 2

1.3 Circles (and How To Breach Them) 9

1.4 The Semiotic Stance 15

1.5 Overview of Chapters 22

2 Enemies, Parasites, and Noise 27

2.1 The Burning of Bridges 27

2.2 Channel, Infrastructure, and Institution 29

2.3 Shannon and Jakobson 33

2.4 Serres and Peirce 36

2.5 Jakobson and Serres 40

2.6 The Proliferation of Parasites 48

2.7 Enclosure, Disclosure, and Value 52

3 Secrecy, Poetry, and Being-Free 55

3.1 The Structure (and Event) of Networks 55

3.2 Degrees of Freedom 59

3.3 Frames of Relevance, Scales of Resolution 61

3.4 Sense and Sensibility 65

3.5 Enemies and Insecurities 70

3.6 The Poetics of Channels, The Secrets of Infrastructure 73

3.7 Residence without Representation 77

4 Meaning, Information, and Enclosure 81

4.1 From Tracing to Effacing 81

4.2 MacKay's Account of Information and Meaning 85

4.3 The 'Value' of Information 89

4.4 Peirce's Theory of Meaning 94

4.5 Peirce's Theory of Information 97

4.6 The Matrix 102

4.7 From the Beautiful to the Sublime 106

5 Materiality, Virtuality, and Temporality 109

5.1 How to Buy Yourself a Night in Minecraft 109

5.2 Why Archeology Is So Hard 111

5.3 Figure and Ground, Grice and Freud 117

5.4 Singularities and Replicas, Qualia and Aura 122

5.5 Deleuze's Understanding of the Virtual 125

5.6 Peirce's Understanding of the Virtual 131

5.7 Ontology and Virtuality 135

6 Computation, Interpretation, and Mediation 139

6.1 Sifters and Shifters 139

6.2 Sieving Symbols and Symbolizing Sieves 142

6.3 Linguistic Anthropology in the Age of Language Automata 146

6.4 Kinds of Languages, Kinds of Computers 152

6.5 Universal Grammar and Linguistic Relativity 155

6.6 Virtuality, Happiness, and Secret Roads to Recognition 158

6.7 Intermediation as Topic and Technique 160

7 Algorithms, Agents, and Ontologies 171

7.1 The Sabotaging of Sieves 171

7.2 The Ontology of Spam, Meteorites, and Huckleberry Finn 174

7.3 Ontologies in Transformation, Ontologies of Transformation 178

7.4 Testing Turing 183

7.5 Bayesian Anthropology 186

7.6 Virtuality and Actuality Revisited 191

7.7 Meaning, Mathematics, and Meat 193.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Kockelman, Paul. Art of interpretation in an age of computation.

ISBN:

9780190636531

019063653X

OCLC:

965445709