Information: A Reader - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0231186215 ISBN 13 : 9780231186216

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2021

Synopsis

For decades, we have been told we live in the “information age”―a time when disruptive technological advancement has reshaped the categories and social uses of knowledge and when quantitative assessment is increasingly privileged. Such methodologies and concepts of information are usually considered the provenance of the natural and social sciences, which present them as politically and philosophically neutral. Yet the humanities should and do play an important role in interpreting and critiquing the historical, cultural, and conceptual nature of information.

This book is one of two companion volumes that explore theories and histories of information from a humanistic perspective. They consider information as a long-standing feature of social, cultural, and conceptual management, a matter of social practice, and a fundamental challenge for the humanities today.

Information: A Reader provides an introduction to the concept of information in historical, literary, and cultural studies. It features excerpts from more than forty texts by theorists and critics who have helped establish the notion of the “information age” or expand upon it. The reader establishes a canonical framework for thinking about information in humanistic terms. Together with Information: Keywords, it sets forth a major humanistic vision of the concept of information.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Eric Hayot is distinguished professor of comparative literature and Asian studies at the Pennsylvania State University.

Anatoly Detwyler is assistant professor of modern Chinese literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Lea Pao is assistant professor of German studies at Stanford University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0231186215
• ISBN 13: 9780231186216
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 408
• Éditeur: Hayot Eric, Pao Lea, Detwyler Anatoly
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Columbia University Press; https://cup.columbia.edu/; ; OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL 412 LOW MEMORIAL LIBRARY 535 W. 116THSTR; NEW YORK; NY; 10027; Etats-Unis
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