Bernard D. Geoghegan, "Code: From Information Theory to French Theory" (Duke UP, 2023)
New Books in Language
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The Consequences of Media Driven Research
The idea is the conceit is you could also call it the ruse. You know, ostensibly comes from indigenous cultures themselves that was the idea. Their practices don't necessarily lead to a new science of culture. I don't expect but it helps the ends of providing lots of major important suggestions how to mathematicians to engineers to computer scientists in the 40s and 50s when they start trying to figure out what their computers do. It's more of this crazy mixed up story where observations made under problematic conditions and Bali are forming suggestions to foundation officers in the 1940s to fund researchers like mathematician to get together for social science informed by computing.
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