TY  - BOOK
AU  - Golumbia,David
TI  - The Cultural Logic of Computation
SN  - 9780674053885
AV  - QA76 
U1  - 303.48/34 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Computers-Social aspects
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- 1. The Cultural Functions of Computation -- Part One: Computationalism and Cognition -- 2. Chomsky's Computationalism -- 3. Genealogies of Philosophical Functionalism -- Part Two: Computationalism and Language -- 4. Computationalist Linguistics -- 5. Linguistic Computationalism -- Part Three: Cultural Computationalism -- 6. Computation, Globalization, and Cultural Striation -- 7. Computationalism, Striation, and Cultural Authority -- Part Four: Computationalist Politics -- 8. Computationalism and Political Individualism -- 9. Computationalism and Political Authority -- Epilogue: Computers without Computationalism -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index
N2  - Golumbia, who worked as a software designer for more than ten years, argues that computers are cultural "all the way down"--that there is no part of the apparent technological transformation that is not shaped by historical and cultural processes, or that escapes existing cultural politics
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