The Cultural Logic of Computation / / David Golumbia.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Golumbia, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; 1. The Cultural Functions of Computation --; Part one. Computationalism and Cognition --; 2. Chomsky's Computationalism --; 3. Genealogies of Philosophical Functionalism --; Part two. Computationalism and Language --; 4. Computationalist Linguistics --; 5. Linguistic Computationalism --; Part three. Cultural Computationalism --; 6. Computation, Globalization, and Cultural Striation --; 7. Computationalism, Striation, and Cultural Authority --; Part four. Computationalist Politics --; 8. Computationalism and Political Individualism --; 9. Computationalism and Political Authority --; Epilogue. Computers without Computationalism --; Notes --; References --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674053885; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674053885
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David Golumbia.

In The Cultural Logic of Computation, David Golumbia, who worked as a software designer for more than ten years, argues that computers are cultural "all the way down" - that there is no part of the apparent technological transformation that is not shaped by historical and cultural processes, or that escapes existing cultural politics. The Cultural Logic of Computation provides a needed corrective to the uncritical enthusiasm for computers common today in many parts of our culture.