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Osiris, Volume 38 Beyond Craft and Code: Human and Algorithmic Cultures, Past and Present

Evans, James Johns Adrian
Heftet / 2023 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780226827872
Publisert
2023-07-31
Utgiver
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University of Chicago Press
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254 mm
Bredde
171 mm
Dybde
33 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
312

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Evans, James
Johns Adrian

Om bidragsyterne

James Evans is the Max Palevsky Professor of History and Civilization in Sociology and director of Knowledge Lab at the University of Chicago, where he also serves as faculty director of the program in computational social science. He holds an external professorship at the Santa Fe Institute and is the author of numerous articles in Science, Nature, and PNAS.  ​Adrian Johns is the Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History at the University of Chicago. His many books include The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making, Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates, and, most recently, The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America, all three also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Osiris, Volume 38 Beyond Craft and Code: Human and Algorithmic Cultures, Past and Present

Evans, James Johns Adrian
Heftet / 2023 / Engelsk
Evans, James Johns Adrian
Heftet / 2023 / Engelsk
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Perceptively explores the shifting intersections between algorithmic systems and human practices in the modern era. How have algorithmic systems and human practices developed in tandem since 1800? This volume of Osiris deftly addresses the question, dispelling along the way the traditional notion of algorithmic “code” and human “craft” as natural opposites. Instead, algorithms and humans have always acted in concert, depending on each other to advance new knowledge and produce social consequences. By shining light on alternative computational imaginaries, Beyond Craft and Code opens fresh space in which to understand algorithmic diversity, its governance, and even its conservation. The volume contains essays by experts in fields extending from early modern arithmetic to contemporary robotics. Traversing a range of cases and arguments that connect politics, historical epistemology, aesthetics, and artificial intelligence, the contributors collectively propose a novel vocabulary of concepts with which to think about how the history of science can contribute to understanding today’s world. Ultimately, Beyond Craft and Code reconfigures the historiography of science and technology to suggest a new way to approach the questions posed by an algorithmic culture—not only improving our understanding of algorithmic pasts and futures but also unlocking our ability to better govern our present.
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Introduction: How and Why to Historicize Algorithmic Cultures James Evans andAdrian Johns pp. 1–15MACHINATIONS: CRAFT, CODE, AND BEYONDThe Craft and Code Binary: Before, During, and After James Evans,Tyler Reigeluth, andAdrian Johns pp. 19–39On Remediation: Media, Repair, and the Discipline of Fantasy in the Theory and Practice of Algorithmic Modernity Michael J. Barany pp. 40–57MAKING AND BREAKING RULES: PREDICTION, DISCOVERY, AND ORIGINALITYThe Marxist in the Machine Stephanie Dick pp. 61–81The Art and Craft of Mathematical Expression: Computational Origami and the Politics of Creativity Clare S. Kim pp. 82–102Provincializing Impact: From Imperial Anxiety to Algorithmic Universalism Alex Csiszar pp. 103–126RECKONING WITH REALITY: PROBLEMS OF DESIGN AND CONTROLBetween “Magnificent Machine” and “Elusive Device”: Wassily Leontief’s Input-Output Analysis and Its International Applicability Honghong Tinn pp. 129–146Armed Algorithms: Hacking the Real World in Cold War America Salem Elzway pp. 147–164“There’s No Data Like More Data”: Automatic Speech Recognition and the Making of Algorithmic Culture Xiaochang Li pp. 165–182UNRULY ASSEMBLAGES: RECURSIVE WORK AND ALGORITHMIC TENACITYUsers Gone Astray: Spreadsheet Charts, Junky Graphics, and Statistical Knowledge Matthew L. Jones pp. 185–204Statecraft by Algorithms Alma Steingart pp. 205–222Making Mistakes: Constructing Algorithmic Errors to Understand Sociotechnical Power Mike Ananny pp. 223–241CULTURE ENCODED: VISIONS OF ALGORITHMIC PASTS, PRESENTS, AND FUTURESCode and Critique: Ted Nelson’s Project Xanadu and the Politics of New Media Hallam Stevens pp. 245–264Settler Computing: Water Algorithms and the Equitable Apportionment Doctrine on the Colorado River, 1950–1990 Theodora Dryer pp. 265–285Algorithm’s Cradle: Commemorating al-Khwarizmi in the Soviet History of Mathematics and Cold War Computer Science Ksenia Tatarchenko pp. 286–304Afterword: Mashed between Code and Craft: So Many Pictures of Food John Tresch pp. 305–320Notes on the Contributors pp. 321–322Index pp. 323–328
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Perceptively explores the shifting intersections between algorithmic systems and human practices in the modern era. How have algorithmic systems and human practices developed in tandem since 1800? This volume of Osiris deftly addresses the question, dispelling along the way the traditional notion of algorithmic “code” and human “craft” as natural opposites. Instead, algorithms and humans have always acted in concert, depending on each other to advance new knowledge and produce social consequences. By shining light on alternative computational imaginaries, Beyond Craft and Code opens fresh space in which to understand algorithmic diversity, its governance, and even its conservation. The volume contains essays by experts in fields extending from early modern arithmetic to contemporary robotics. Traversing a range of cases and arguments that connect politics, historical epistemology, aesthetics, and artificial intelligence, the contributors collectively propose a novel vocabulary of concepts with which to think about how the history of science can contribute to understanding today’s world. Ultimately, Beyond Craft and Code reconfigures the historiography of science and technology to suggest a new way to approach the questions posed by an algorithmic culture—not only improving our understanding of algorithmic pasts and futures but also unlocking our ability to better govern our present.
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Introduction: How and Why to Historicize Algorithmic Cultures James Evans andAdrian Johns pp. 1–15MACHINATIONS: CRAFT, CODE, AND BEYONDThe Craft and Code Binary: Before, During, and After James Evans,Tyler Reigeluth, andAdrian Johns pp. 19–39On Remediation: Media, Repair, and the Discipline of Fantasy in the Theory and Practice of Algorithmic Modernity Michael J. Barany pp. 40–57MAKING AND BREAKING RULES: PREDICTION, DISCOVERY, AND ORIGINALITYThe Marxist in the Machine Stephanie Dick pp. 61–81The Art and Craft of Mathematical Expression: Computational Origami and the Politics of Creativity Clare S. Kim pp. 82–102Provincializing Impact: From Imperial Anxiety to Algorithmic Universalism Alex Csiszar pp. 103–126RECKONING WITH REALITY: PROBLEMS OF DESIGN AND CONTROLBetween “Magnificent Machine” and “Elusive Device”: Wassily Leontief’s Input-Output Analysis and Its International Applicability Honghong Tinn pp. 129–146Armed Algorithms: Hacking the Real World in Cold War America Salem Elzway pp. 147–164“There’s No Data Like More Data”: Automatic Speech Recognition and the Making of Algorithmic Culture Xiaochang Li pp. 165–182UNRULY ASSEMBLAGES: RECURSIVE WORK AND ALGORITHMIC TENACITYUsers Gone Astray: Spreadsheet Charts, Junky Graphics, and Statistical Knowledge Matthew L. Jones pp. 185–204Statecraft by Algorithms Alma Steingart pp. 205–222Making Mistakes: Constructing Algorithmic Errors to Understand Sociotechnical Power Mike Ananny pp. 223–241CULTURE ENCODED: VISIONS OF ALGORITHMIC PASTS, PRESENTS, AND FUTURESCode and Critique: Ted Nelson’s Project Xanadu and the Politics of New Media Hallam Stevens pp. 245–264Settler Computing: Water Algorithms and the Equitable Apportionment Doctrine on the Colorado River, 1950–1990 Theodora Dryer pp. 265–285Algorithm’s Cradle: Commemorating al-Khwarizmi in the Soviet History of Mathematics and Cold War Computer Science Ksenia Tatarchenko pp. 286–304Afterword: Mashed between Code and Craft: So Many Pictures of Food John Tresch pp. 305–320Notes on the Contributors pp. 321–322Index pp. 323–328
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780226827872
Publisert
2023-07-31
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Chicago Press
Høyde
254 mm
Bredde
171 mm
Dybde
33 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
312

Redaktør
Evans, James
Johns Adrian

Om bidragsyterne

James Evans is the Max Palevsky Professor of History and Civilization in Sociology and director of Knowledge Lab at the University of Chicago, where he also serves as faculty director of the program in computational social science. He holds an external professorship at the Santa Fe Institute and is the author of numerous articles in Science, Nature, and PNAS.  ​Adrian Johns is the Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History at the University of Chicago. His many books include The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making, Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates, and, most recently, The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America, all three also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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