The Humanities in Transition From Postmodernism Into the Digital Age by Nigel A Raab

Author:Nigel A Raab [Raab, Nigel A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781000091465
Goodreads: 51993037
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-05-31T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 Martin Erwig, Once Upon an Algorithm: How Stories Explain Computing (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2017), 17. In the context of the current discussion, this book is fascinating because the author has made an extreme effort to employ postmodern terminology yet advocates a method completely at odds with postmodernism. As presented, the two approaches are impossible to reconcile.

2 Ed Finn, What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017), 19. A variant of this theme appears in Arlindo L. Oliveira, The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining Humanity (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2017). Oliveira asks, what is the set of roads with [the] shortest total length that will keep all the cities connected?

3 See the opening page of Martin Heidegger, Holzwege (Frankfurt am Main: V. Klostermann, 1950). The title has been translated as “Off the Beaten Track” but this is rather misleading. The German original has wood/forest in the title; the material substance is critical to Heidegger’s meaning and materiality resurfaces throughout the volume. The translation also suggests what the Holzwege were not rather than what they were. True, they were not the main roads; but they were paths, and they were beaten by the soft soles of individuals who really knew their forest environment. See Martin Heidegger, Off the Beaten Track, ed. Julian Young and Kenneth Haynes (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

4 Finn, What Algorithms Want, 5.

5 This reference appears in Finn but relies on the work of Wendy Chun. See Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011).

6 See the title heading to chapter one in Katherine Hayles, My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005).

7 Pedro Domingos, The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2015), 47.

8 Noble, Algorithms of Oppression, 10.

9 Tarleton Gillespie, “The Relevance of Algorithms,” in Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society, ed. Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo J. Boczkowski, and Kirsten A. Foot (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2014), 169.

10 Gillespie, “The Relevance of Algorithms,” 179.

11 James Grimmelmann, “The Google Dilemma,” New York Law School Law Review 53 (September 2008): 944.

12 Pasquale, The Black Box Society, 3.

13 Erwig, Once Upon an Algorithm, 162.

14 Erwig, Once Upon an Algorithm, 162.

15 Erwig, Once Upon an Algorithm, 145.

16 Erwig, Once Upon an Algorithm, 75.

17 Erwig, Once Upon an Algorithm, 92.

18 Erwig, Once Upon an Algorithm, 182.

19 Erwig, Once Upon an Algorithm, 51, 145, 181, emphasis in original.

20 Erwig, Once Upon an Algorithm, 54.

21 Quine, Word and Object, 27.

22 For a more philosophical perspective, see John R. Searle, “Minds, Brains, and Programs,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3, no. 3 (1980): 417–57.

23 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, ed. G. E. M. Anscombe, 3rd ed. (Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2001), 87. Der Wegweiser ist in Ordnung—wenn er, unter normalen Verhältnissen, seinen Zweck erfüllt.

24 Rudolf Carnap, The Logical Structure of the World, trans. Rolf A.

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