| Portion of title |
Human and algorithmic cultures, past and present |
| Series |
Osiris : a research journal devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences ; 38
Osiris (Bruges, Belgium) ; 2nd ser., v.38. ^A499893
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| Contents |
Introduction. How and why to historicize algorithmic cultures / James Evans and Adrian Johns -- The craft and code binary: before, during, and after / James Evans, Tyler Reigeluth, and Adrian Johns -- On remediation: media, repair, and the discipline of fantasy in the theory and practice of algorithmic modernity / Michael J. Barany -- The Marxist in the machine / Stephanie Dick -- The art and craft of mathematical expression: computational origami and the politics of creativity / Clare S. Kim -- Provincializing impact: from imperial anxiety to algorithmic universalism / Alex Csiszar -- Between "magnificent machine" and "elusive device": Wassily Leontief's input-output analysis and its international applicability / Honghong Tinn -- Armed algorithms: hacking the real world in cold war America / Salem Elzway -- "There's no data like more data": automatic speech recognition and the making of algorithmic culture / Xiaochang Li -- Users gone astray: spreadsheet charts, junky graphics, and statistical knowledge / Matthew L. Jones -- Statecraft by algorithms / Alma Steingart -- Making mistakes: constructing algorithmic errors to understand sociotechnical power / Mike Ananny -- Code and critique: Ted Nelson's project Xanadu and the politics of new media / Hallam Stevens -- Settler computing: water algorithms and the equitable apportionment doctrine on the Colorado River, 1950-1990 / Theodora Dryer -- Algorithm's cradle: commemorating Al-Khwarizmi in the Soviet history of mathematics and cold war computer science / Ksenia Tatarchenko - Afterword. Mashed between code and craft: so many pictures of food / John Tresch. |
| Abstract |
"How have algorithmic systems and human practices developed in tandem since 1800? This volume of Osiris deftly addresses the question, dispelling along the way the traditional notion of algorithmic "code" and human "craft" as natural opposites. Instead, algorithms and humans have always acted in concert, depending on each other to advance new knowledge and produce social consequences. By shining light on alternative computational imaginaries, Beyond Craft and Code opens fresh space in which to understand algorithmic diversity, its governance, and even its conservation. The volume contains essays by experts in fields extending from early modern arithmetic to contemporary robotics. Traversing a range of cases and arguments that connect politics, historical epistemology, aesthetics, and artificial intelligence, the contributors collectively propose a novel vocabulary of concepts with which to think about how the history of science can contribute to understanding today's world. Ultimately, Beyond Craft and Code reconfigures the historiography of science and technology to suggest a new way to approach the questions posed by an algorithmic culture--not only improving our understanding of algorithmic pasts and futures but also unlocking our ability to better govern our present."-- Publisher's website. |
| General note | "The distant origins of this volume lie in a conference that took place at the University of Chicago in 2018. The conference marked a transition between two projects funded by the Mellon Foundation, one devoted to "Disciplines and Technologies" and the other to "Algorithms, Models, and Formalisms."--Acknowledgments, page v. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 0226827879 |
| ISBN | 9780226827872 |
