Items related to Code: From Information Theory to French Theory (Sign,...

Code: From Information Theory to French Theory (Sign, Storage, Transmission) - Softcover

Book 18 of 20: Sign, Storage, Transmission

Geoghegan, Bernard Dionysius

  • 4.08 out of 5 stars
    38 ratings by Goodreads
 
9781478019008: Code: From Information Theory to French Theory (Sign, Storage, Transmission)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 147801900X ISBN 13: 9781478019008
Publisher: Duke University Press, 2023

Synopsis

In Code Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reconstructs how Progressive Era technocracy as well as crises of industrial democracy and colonialism shaped early accounts of cybernetics and digital media by theorists including Norbert Wiener, Warren Weaver, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roman Jakobson, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, and Luce Irigaray. His analysis casts light on how media-practical research forged common epistemic cause in programs that stretched from 1930s interwar computing at MIT and eugenics to the proliferation of seminars and laboratories in 1960s Paris. This mobilization ushered forth new fields of study such as structural anthropology, family therapy, and literary semiology while forming enduring intellectual affinities between the humanities and informatics. With Code, Geoghegan offers a new history of French theory and the digital humanities as transcontinental and political endeavors linking interwar colonial ethnography in Dutch Bali to French sciences in the throes of Cold War-era decolonization and modernization. 

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan is Senior Lecturer in the History and Theory of Digital Media at King’s College London.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Duke University Press
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
147801900X
ISBN 13 
9781478019008
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
272
Rating
  • 4.08 out of 5 stars
    38 ratings by Goodreads