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Orit Halpern, “Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945” (Duke UP, 2014)

New Books in Science

English - March 09, 2015 11:17 - 1 hour - ★★★★ - 13 ratings
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The second half of the twentieth century saw a radical transformation in approaches to recording and displaying information. Orit Halpern‘s new book traces the emergence of the “communicative objectivity” that resulted from this shift and produced new forms of observation, rationality, and economy. Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and...
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The second half of the twentieth century saw a radical transformation in approaches to recording and displaying information. Orit Halpern‘s new book traces the emergence of the “communicative objectivity” that resulted from this shift and produced new forms of observation, rationality, and economy. Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and...

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