Cultural Logic of Computation

Name: Cultural Logic of Computation
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ISBN: 9780674032927

ISBN-10: 0674032926

ISBN-13: 9780674032927

Edition: 2009

Authors: David Golumbia

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Advocates of computers make sweeping claims for their inherently transformative power: new and different from previous technologies, they are sure to resolve many of our existing social problems, and perhaps even to cause a positive political revolution.In The Cultural Logic of Computation, David Golumbia, who worked as a software designer for more than ten years, confronts this orthodoxy, arguing instead that computers are cultural ldquo;all the way downrdquo;-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. From the perspective of transnational corporations and…

Book details

Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.73" wide x 9.53" long x 0.99" tall
Weight: 1.474

David Golumbia is Assistant Professor of English, Media Studies, and Linguistics at the University of Virginia.




The Cultural Functions of Computation



Computationalism and Cognition



Chomsky's Computationalism



Genealogies of Philosophical Functionalism



Computationalism and Language



Computationalist Linguistics



Linguistic Computationalism



Cultural Computationalism



Computation, Globalization, and Cultural Striation



Computationalism, Striation, and Cultural Authority



Computationalist Politics



Computationalism and Political Individualism



Computationalism and Political Authority


Epilogue: Computers without Computationalism


Notes


References


Acknowledgments


Index