{"product_id":"art-of-interpretation-in-the-paul-kockelman-9780190636531","title":"Art of Interpretation in the Age of Computation","description":"This book is about media, mediation, and meaning. \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Interpretation\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on a set of interrelated processes whereby ostensibly human-specific modes of meaning become automated by machines, formatted by protocols, and networked by infrastructures. That is, as computation replaces interpretation, information effaces meaning, and infrastructure displaces interaction. Or so it seems. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePaul Kockelman asks: What does it take to automate, format, and network meaningful practices? What difference does this make for those who engage in such practices? And what is at stake? Reciprocally: How can we better understand computational processes from the standpoint of meaningful practices? How can we leverage such processes to better understand such practices? And what lies in wait? In answering these questions, Kockelman stays very close to fundamental concerns of computer science that emerged in the first half of the twentieth-century. Rather than foreground the latest application, technology or interface, he accounts for processes that underlie each and every digital technology deployed today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a novel method, \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Interpretation \u003c\/em\u003eleverages key ideas of American pragmatism-a philosophical stance that understands the world, and our relation to it, in a way that avoids many of the conundrums and criticisms of conventional twentieth-century social theory. It puts this stance in dialogue with certain currents, and key texts, in anthropology and linguistics, science and technology studies, critical theory, computer science, and media studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Kockelman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 019063653X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190636531\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford Univ PR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/18\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2018","brand":"Paul Kockelman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47757119160575,"sku":"9780190636531","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_690ffe17-72b2-4349-9f5b-b61d59fc2275.jpg?v=1765509969","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/art-of-interpretation-in-the-paul-kockelman-9780190636531","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}