Playful Intelligence

Digitizing Tradition

Henry Sussman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

416 Seiten

2014
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-6882-3 (ISBN)

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This is a guide, in theory and in practice, to how current technological changes have impacted our interaction with texts and with each other. Henry Sussman rereads pivotal moments in literary, philosophical and cultural modernity as anticipating the cybernetic discourse that has increasingly defined theory since the computer revolution. Cognitive science, psychoanalysis and systems theory are paralleled to current trends in literary and philosophical theory.

Chapters alternate between theory and readings of literary texts, resulting in a broad but rigorously grounded framework for the relation between literature and computer science. This book is a refreshing perspective on the analog-orientated tradition of theory in the humanities – and offers the first literary-textual genealogy of the digital.

Henry Sussman is Visiting Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University, USA.

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Preface
1. Reading Kandinsky
2. From The Brothers K. to Joseph K.: The Digitization of Literature
3. The Calculable, the Incalculable and the Rest: Kafka’s Virtual Environment
4. Urban Introjections: Berlin Alexanderplatz
5. Theory on the Fly: Critical Synthesis under Conditions of Material Pirating and Borrowed Time
6. Playful Healing: The Transitions of D. W. Winnicott
7. The Figure in the Network: Douglas Hofstadter and the Ethics of Intelligence
8. The Phenomenology of Jetlag
Afterword: Healing, Systematically
Notes and References
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.10.2014
Zusatzinfo	25 illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	757 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► Spieleprogrammierung
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4725-6882-6 / 1472568826
ISBN-13	978-1-4725-6882-3 / 9781472568823
Zustand	Neuware