Bernard D. Geoghegan, "Code: From Information Theory to French Theory" (Duke UP, 2023)
New Books in Critical Theory
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Is There a New Science of Culture in Computer Science?
The idea is the conceit is you could also call it the ruse. Their practices don't necessarily lead to a new science of culture. Like they 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 started thinking. It's wildly problematic to suggest that there's some pure logic on displayed machines and indigenous culture. That's like a totally bizarre story. And I'll tell you a little more about wildly messy relationships and saying, that's how science that's how technology take shape.
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