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Geography's quantitative revolutions : Edward A. Ackerman and the Cold War origins of big data / Elvin Wyly.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wyly, Elvin K., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Geographers--United States--Biography.
- Geographers.
- Geography--History--20th century.
- Geography.
- Geography--Philosophy.
- Geography--Methodology.
- Geographic information systems--History.
- Geographic information systems.
- Neo-Kantianism--History--20th century.
- Neo-Kantianism.
- Ackerman, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1911-1973.
- Ackerman, Edward A.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "This book traces the recent history of geography, information, and technology through the biography of Edward A. Ackerman, an important but forgotten figure in geography's 'quantitative revolution.' It argues that Ackerman's work helped encode the hidden logics of a distorted philosophical heritage -- a dangerous, cybernetic form of thought known as militant neo-Kantianism -- into the network architectures of today's pervasive worlds of surveillance capitalism"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Ackerman's frontier
- The Ackerman sample
- Contradictions of "mental structuring"
- Militant neo-Kantianism
- The new evolution of geographic thought?
- Notes on desk.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781949199109
- 194919910X
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