Holding on to Reality The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium

Name: Holding on to Reality The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium
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ISBN: 9780226066257

ISBN-10: 0226066258

ISBN-13: 9780226066257

Edition: 1999

Authors: Albert Borgmann

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Holding On to Reality is a brilliant history of information, from its inception in the natural world to its role in the transformation of culture to the current Internet mania and is attendant assets and liabilities. Drawing on the history of ideas, the details of information technology, and the boundaries of the human condition, Borgmann illuminates the relationship between things and signs, between reality and information. "[Borgmann] has offered a stunningly clear definition of information in Holding On to Reality. . . . He leaves room for little argument, unless one wants to pose the now vogue objection: I guess it depends on what you mean by nothing."--Paul Bennett, Wired "A superb…

Book details

List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 282
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.93" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



Introduction: Information vs. Reality



Natural Information: Information about Reality



The Decline of Meaning and the Rise of Information



The Nature of Information



Ancestral Information



From Landmarks to Letters



The Rise of Literacy



Cultural Information: Information for Reality



Producing Information: Writing and Structure



Producing Information: Measures and Grids



Realizing Information: Reading



Realizing Information: Playing



Realizing Information: Building



Technological Information: Information as Reality



Elementary Measures



Basic Structures



Transparency and Control



Virtuality and Ambiguity



Fragility and Noise Conclusion: Information and Reality


Notes


Index