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1 online resource (vii, 393 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Table of Contents -- An Introduction -- The Shannon Knot -- 1. Claude Shannon, from A Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948) -- 2. Norbert Wiener, from Cybernetics -- or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948) -- 3. Harold Garfinkel, from Toward a Sociological Theory of Information (1952) -- 4. Donald MacKay, from "The Place of 'Meaning' in the Theory of Information" (1955) -- 5. Claude Shannon, "The Bandwagon" (1956) -- 6. Gregory Bateson, from "The Cybernetics of 'Self ': A Theory of Alcoholism" (1972) |
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7. John Durham Peters, from "Information: Notes Toward a Critical History" (1988) -- 8. N. Katherine Hayles, from "Contesting for the Body of Information: The Macy Conferences on Cybernetics" (1999) -- 9. Peter Janich, from What Is Information? (2006) -- 10. Matthieu Triclot, from The Cybernetic Moment (2008) -- Order, Number -- 1. Michel Foucault, from The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (1966) -- 2. Mary Poovey, from A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society (1998) -- 3. Ian Hacking, from The Taming of Chance (1990) |
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4. Thomas Richards, from The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire (1994) -- 5. Friedrich Hayek, from "The Use of Knowledge in Society" (1945) -- 6. Claude Lévi-Strauss, from "The Mathematics of Man" (1954) -- 7. Lily Kay, from Who Wrote the Book of Life? A History of the Genetic Code (2000) -- The Work of Art -- 1. Martin Heidegger, from "The Origin of the Work of Art" (1950) -- 2. Walter Benjamin, from "The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov" (1936) -- 3. Yuri M. Lotman, "The Future for Structural Poetics" (1979) |
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4. Abraham Moles, from Information Theory and Esthetic Perception (1958) -- 5. Haroldo De Campos, from "The Informational Temperature of the Text" (1960) -- 6. Umberto Eco, from The Open Work (1962) -- 7. William R. Paulson, from The Noise of Culture: Literary Texts in a World of Information (1988) -- Media Ecologies -- 1. Frances Yates, from The Art of Memory (1966) -- 2. Mary J. Carruthers, from "Ars oblivionalis, ars inveniendi: The Cherub Figure and the Arts of Memory" (2009) |
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3. Michael E. Hobart and Zachary S. Schiffman, from Information Ages: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution (1998) -- 4. Walter Ong, from Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (1982) -- 5. Sigmund Freud, from "A Note Upon the 'Mystic Writing-Pad' " (1925) -- 6. Vannevar Bush, from "As We May Think" (1945) -- 7. Marshall McLuhan, from Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964) -- 8. Friedrich Kittler, from "There Is No Software" (1993) -- 9. Vilém Flusser, from Form and Material (1993) and Recoding (1987) |
| Summary |
"For decades, we have been told we live in the "information age"--A time when disruptive technological advancement has reshaped the categories and social uses of knowledge and when quantitative assessment is increasingly privileged. Such methodologies and concepts of information are usually considered the provenance of the natural and social sciences, which present them as politically and philosophically neutral. Yet the humanities should and do play an important role in interpreting and critiquing the historical, cultural, and conceptual nature of information. This book is one of two companion volumes that explore theories and histories of information from a humanistic perspective. They consider information as a long-standing feature of social, cultural, and conceptual management, a matter of social practice, and a fundamental challenge for the humanities today. Information: A Reader provides an introduction to the concept of information in historical, literary, and cultural studies. It features excerpts from more than forty texts by theorists and critics who have helped establish the notion of the "information age" or expand upon it. The reader establishes a canonical framework for thinking about information in humanistic terms. Together with Information: Keywords, it sets forth a major humanistic vision of the concept of information"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Information science -- Philosophy.
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Information science -- Social aspects.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory |
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Information science -- Philosophy |
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Information science -- Social aspects |
| Added Author |
Hayot, Eric, 1972- editor.
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Detwyler, Anatoly, editor.
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Pao, Lea, editor.
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| Added Title |
Information (Hayot, Detwyler, Pao)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Information (Hayot, Detwyler, Pao). Information. New York : Columbia University Press, [2021] 9780231186209 (DLC) 2020030682 |
| ISBN |
9780231546546 electronic book |
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0231546548 electronic book |
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9780231186209 hardcover acid-free paper |
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9780231186216 paperback acid-free paper |
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