Geography's Quantitative Revolutions: Edward A. Ackerman and the Cold War Origins of Big Data by Wyly, Elvin

Geography's Quantitative Revolutions: Edward A. Ackerman and the Cold War Origins of Big Data (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781949199086)

Vendor: Elvin Wyly
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Format: Hardcover
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Geography's Quantitative Revolutions: Edward A. Ackerman and the Cold War Origins of Big Data by Wyly, Elvin

Geography's Quantitative Revolutions: Edward A. Ackerman and the Cold War Origins of Big Data

$99.99
Geography's Quantitative Revolutions: Edward A. Ackerman and the Cold War Origins of Big Data by Wyly, Elvin

Geography's Quantitative Revolutions: Edward A. Ackerman and the Cold War Origins of Big Data

$99.99
Format: Hardcover
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"This book traces the recent history of geography, information, and technology through the biography of Edward A. Ackerman, an important but forgotten figure in geography's 'quantitative revolution.' It argues that Ackerman's work helped encode the hidden logics of a distorted philosophical heritage -- a dangerous, cybernetic form of thought known as militant neo-Kantianism -- into the network architectures of today's pervasive worlds of surveillance capitalism"--

Author: Elvin Wyly
ISBN-10: 1949199088
ISBN-13: 9781949199086
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2019
Pages: 168
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.50d

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Choice 04/01/2020
By Elvin Wyly
By Elvin Wyly
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Elvin Wyly is a professor of geography and chair of the Urban Studies Coordinating Committee at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and former editor in chief of the journal Urban Geography.

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