The Art of Interpretation in the Age of Computation

by Paul Kockelman

This book is about media, mediation, and meaning. The Art of Interpretation focuses on a set of interrelated processes whereby ostensibly human-specific modes of meaning become automated by machines, formatted by protocols, and networked by infrastructures. That is, as computation replaces interpretation, information effaces meaning, and infrastructure displaces interaction. Or so it seems.

Paul Kockelman asks: What does it take to automate,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019063653X
• ISBN13: 9780190636531
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"