Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason Since 1945

by Orit Halpern

Book Overview

Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second half of the twentieth century. Contending that our forms of attention, observation, and truth are contingent and contested, Orit Halpern historicizes the ways that we are trained, and train ourselves, to observe and analyze the world. Tracing the postwar impact of cybernetics and the communication...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822357445
• ISBN13: 9780822357445
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"