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Beautiful Data: A History Of Vision And Reason Since 1945 (Experimental Futures)
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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 Sciences On The Social And Human Sciences, Design, Arts, And Urban Planning, She Finds A Radical Shift In Attitudes Toward Recording And Displaying Information. These Changed Attitudes Produced What She Calls Communicative Objectivity: New Forms Of Observation, Rationality, And Economy Based On The Management And Analysis Of Data. Halpern Complicates Assumptions About The Value Of Data And Visualization, Arguing That Changes In How We Manage And Train Perception, And Define Reason And Intelligence, Are Also Transformations In Governmentality. She Also Challenges The Paradoxical Belief That We Are Experiencing A Crisis Of Attention Caused By Digital Media, A Crisis That Can Be Resolved Only Through Intensified Media Consumption.
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- Q: What is 'Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945' about? A: This book explores the history of big data and interactivity, examining how our understanding of vision and cognition has evolved since 1945.
- Q: Who is the author of 'Beautiful Data'? A: The author of 'Beautiful Data' is Orit Halpern.
- Q: When was 'Beautiful Data' published? A: The book was published on January 9, 2015.
- Q: What is the format of this book? A: The book is available in paperback format.
- Q: How many pages does 'Beautiful Data' have? A: The book contains 352 pages.
- Q: What is the condition of the book? A: The book is listed in good condition.
- Q: Is 'Beautiful Data' an illustrated edition? A: Yes, this edition of 'Beautiful Data' is illustrated.
- Q: What category does this book fall under? A: The book is categorized under Architecture.
- Q: What themes are discussed in 'Beautiful Data'? A: The book discusses themes such as communicative objectivity, the impact of cybernetics, and changes in perception and intelligence due to data management.
- Q: What makes 'Beautiful Data' significant in its field? A: It provides a critical historical perspective on data visualization and challenges contemporary beliefs about attention and digital media.