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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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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;
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- anthropology
- computing
- machines and culture
- computation theory
- cybernetics
- operations research
- artifical intelligence
- personal computer
- commodification
- hacking
- hacker
- internet
- cyberspace
- indentity in cyberspace
- cosmology
- clockwork
- charles babbage
- ada lovelace
- industrial revolution
- calculating machine
- coding
- cold war
- alan turing
- afr
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