Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945
- Author
- Orit Halpern
- Publisher / Label
- Duke University Press
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English
- Publication year
- 2015
- Type of publication
- Book
- Number of pages
- 352
- ISBN
- 9780822357305
Index
Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS_vii PROLOGUE. Speculating on Sense_1 INTRODUCTION. Dreams for Our Perceptual Present_9 1 ARCHIVING. Temporality, Storage, and Interactivity in Cybernetics_39 2 VISUALIZING. Design, Communicative Objectivity, and the Interface_79 3 RATIONALIZING. Cognition, Time, and Logic in the Social and Behavioral Sciences_145 4 GOVERNING. Designing Information and Reconfiguring Population circa 1959_199 CONCLUSION_239 EPILOGUE_251 NOTES_271 BIBLIOGRAPHY_307 INDEX_327