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In her book, beautiful data, she traces the rise of digital infrastructure since world war ii and argues that it documents a shift in attitudes to recording and displaying information that made data appear aesthetic, valuable, and therefore ideologically powerful 1. Orit halpern suggests that aestheticization has played a crucial role in legitimizing data visualization and graphical modes of reasoning since 1945. Beautiful data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a. The prologue and introduction to beautiful data by orit halpern each provide an excellent framework for the first chapter of this book. Her recent monograph, beautiful data duke press, 2015, is a history of interactivity, data visualization, and ubiquitous computing.
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A history of vision and reason since 1945, duke press 2015, available here is a genealogy of interactivity, the interface, and big data. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Review beautiful data is a wonderful book, deeply engaging and full of compelling insights. Emma has 157 books on goodreads, and is currently reading beautiful data. Using the postwar science of cyberneticsthe study of communication and controlas a point of departure, my book traces out the reformulation of observation and knowledge that occurred in a range of. My intent is to denaturalize and historically situate assumptions about the value of data, our regular obsession with. A history of vision and reason since 1945 experimental futures. Orit halpern is an associate professor at concordia university in montreal. She argues that technological transformations have changed vision research as artificial intelligence altered our conception of bodies, brains, and the management of culture. A history of vision and reason since 1945january 2015.
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