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The Cultural Logic of Computation.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (268 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674053885
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Cultural Logic of ComputationDDC classification:
  • 303.48/34
LOC classification:
  • QA76
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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