Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2014
Author
Author: Orit Halpern
Language
English
Number of Pages
342 pp.
Publisher
Duke University Press
City
Durham, NC
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Chronological Period
1900-1949
1950-1999
ISBN
9780822357308
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Contents: 

  • Prologue: Speculating on sense
  • Introduction: Dreams for our perceptual present
  • Dreams for the perceptual present: temporality, storage, and interactivity in cybernetics
  • Communicative objectivity: design, knowledge, and the interface
  • The measure of reason and the art of visualization: transforming rationality, method, and logic in the social and human sciences
  • The governance of sense: designing information and reconfiguring population circa 1959