Code: From Information Theory to French Theory
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- Author：Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan
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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。
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A much-needed history of critical theory's complicity with what Geoghegan calls "technocracy。" In many ways， "technocracy" adds to theories of control society described by Gilles Deleuze and Seb Franklin。 Geoghegan shows the rise of such forms of power through ethnographic studies of children， Norbert Weiner's debates over cybernetics， and the reduction of culture to a series of codes in the work of Claude Levi-Strauss， Jacques Lacan， and other so-called crypto-structuralists。 These， in Geoghega A much-needed history of critical theory's complicity with what Geoghegan calls "technocracy。" In many ways， "technocracy" adds to theories of control society described by Gilles Deleuze and Seb Franklin。 Geoghegan shows the rise of such forms of power through ethnographic studies of children， Norbert Weiner's debates over cybernetics， and the reduction of culture to a series of codes in the work of Claude Levi-Strauss， Jacques Lacan， and other so-called crypto-structuralists。 These， in Geoghegan's view， act to reform various social inequities through the use of scientific and technical problem-solving - all underwritten by robber barons and philanthropy。 。。。more
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