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- Author:
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Helmreich, Stefan
- Subject:
- Social Sciences
- Institution Name:
- M.I.T.
- Collection:
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MIT OpenCourseWare
- Grade Level:
- Post-secondary
- Abstract:
This course examines computers anthropologically, as meaningful tools revealing the social and cultural orders that produce them. We read classic texts in computer science along with works analyzing links between machines and culture. We explore early computation theory and capitalist manufacturing; cybernetics and WWII operations research; artificial intelligence and gendered subjectivity; the creation and commodification of the personal computer; the hacking aesthetic; non-Western histories of computing; the growth of the Internet as a military, academic, and commercial project; the politics of identity in cyberspace; and the emergence of "evolutionary" computation.
- Languages:
- English
- Material Type:
- Full Course, Homework and Assignments, Lecture Notes, Syllabi
- Media Format:
- Text/HTML, Downloadable docs
- Conditions of Use:
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The Anthropology of Computing, Fall 2004
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