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Author Wyly, Elvin K., author.

Title Geography's quantitative revolutions : Edward A. Ackerman and the Cold War origins of big data / Elvin Wyly.

Publication Info. Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, [2019]
©2019

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource (xx, 171 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Ackerman's frontier -- The Ackerman sample -- Contradictions of "mental structuring" -- Militant neo-Kantianism -- The new evolution of geographic thought? -- Notes on desk.
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.
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Subject Ackerman, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1911-1973.
Neo-Kantianism -- History -- 20th century.
Neo-Kantianism.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Geographic information systems -- History.
Geographic information systems.
Geography -- Methodology.
Geography -- Methodology.
Geography -- Philosophy.
Geography -- Philosophy.
Geography -- History -- 20th century.
Geography.
Geographers -- United States -- Biography.
Geographers.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Wyly, Elvin K. Geography's quantitative revolutions. First edition. Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2019 (DLC) 2019010618
ISBN 194919910X (electronic book)
9781949199109 (electronic book)
9781949199086 (hardcover)
9781949199093 (paperback)
1949199088