Geography's quantitative revolutions :: Edward A. Ackerman and the Cold War origins of big data /

"This book traces the recent history of geography, information, and technology through the biography of Edward A. Ackerman, an important but forgotten figure in geography's 'quantitative revolution.' It argues that Ackerman's work helped encode the hidden logics of a distort...

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1. Verfasser: Wyly, Elvin K. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, [2019]
Ausgabe:First edition.
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Zusammenfassung:"This book traces the recent history of geography, information, and technology through the biography of Edward A. Ackerman, an important but forgotten figure in geography's 'quantitative revolution.' It argues that Ackerman's work helped encode the hidden logics of a distorted philosophical heritage -- a dangerous, cybernetic form of thought known as militant neo-Kantianism -- into the network architectures of today's pervasive worlds of surveillance capitalism"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xx, 171 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:194919910X
9781949199109

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