Playful intelligence: digitizing tradition

"This is a guide, in theory and in practice, to how current technological changes have impacted our interaction with texts and with each other. Henry Sussman rereads pivotal moments in literary, philosophical, and cultural modernity as anticipating the cybernetic discourse that has increasingly...

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Main Author: Sussman, Henry 1947- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London [u.a.] Bloomsbury 2014
Edition:1. publ.
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"This is a guide, in theory and in practice, to how current technological changes have impacted our interaction with texts and with each other. Henry Sussman rereads pivotal moments in literary, philosophical, and cultural modernity as anticipating the cybernetic discourse that has increasingly defined theory since the computer revolution. Cognitive science, psychoanalysis, and systems theory are paralleled to current trends in literary and philosophical theory. Chapters alternate between theory and readings of literary texts, resulting in a broad but rigorously grounded framework for the relation between literature and computer science. This book is a refreshing perspective on the analog-orientated tradition of theory in the humanities - and offers the first literary-textual genealogy of the digital"..
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:IX, 402 S. Ill.
ISBN:9781472568816
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