The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War

Lingua: inglese

Editore: MIT Press Ltd, 1997

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Paul N. Edwards (Professor, University Of Michigan), MIT Press Ltd. "The Closed World" offers an alternative to the canonical histories of computers and cognitive science. Arguing that we can make sense of computers as tools only when we simultaneously grasp their roles as metaphors and political icons, Paul Edwards shows how Cold War social and cultural contexts shaped emerging computer technology - and were transformed, in turn, by information machines. Edwards begins by describing the emergence of a "closed-world discourse" of global surveillance and control through high-technology military power. The Cold War political goal of "containment" led to the SAGE continental air defense system, Rand Corporation studies of nuclear strategy, and the advanced technologies of the Vietnam War. These and other centralized, computerized military command and control projects - for containing world-scale conflicts - helped closed-world discourse dominate Cold War political decisions. Their apothesis was the Reagan-era plan for a space-based ballistic missile defense. Edwards then shows how these military projects helped computers become axial metaphors in psychological theory. Analyzing the Macy Conferences on cybernetics, the work of the Harvard Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory, and the early history of artificial intelligence, he describes the formation of a "cyborg discourse". By constructing both human minds and artificial intelligences as information machines, cyborg discourse helped integrate people into the hypercomplex technological systems of the closed world. Finally, Edwards explores the cyborg as political identity in science fiction - from the disembodied, panoptic AI of "2001" to the mechanical robots of "Star Wars" and the engineered biological androids of "Blade Runner" - where information age culture and subjectivity were both reflected and constructed.…

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Titolo
The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War
Autore
Paul N. Edwards (Professor, University Of Michigan)
Editore
MIT Press Ltd
Anno di pubblicazione
1997
Tipo di libro
Paperback
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0262550288
ISBN 13
9780262550284
Peso dell'articolo
612 grammi
Dimensioni
152

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