Автор: Matthew L. Jones
Название: Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage
Издательство: University of Chicago Press
Год: 2016
ISBN: 022641146X
Язык: English
Формат: epub
Размер: 16 mb
Страниц: 336
In Reckoning with Matter, Matthew L. Jones draws on the remarkably extensive and well-preserved records of the quest to explore the concrete processes involved in imagining, elaborating, testing, and building calculating machines. He explores the writings of philosophers, engineers, and craftspeople, showing how they thought about technical novelty, their distinctive areas of expertise, and ways they could coordinate their efforts. In doing so, Jones argues that the conceptions of creativity and making they exhibited are often more incisive—and more honest—than those that dominate our current legal, political, and aesthetic culture.
