Contingent Computation: Abstraction, Experience, and Indeterminacy in Computational Aesthetics: Media Philosophy
Autor M. Beatrice Fazien Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 aug 2020
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781538147061
ISBN-10: 1538147068
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 150 x 226 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Seria Media Philosophy
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1538147068
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 150 x 226 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Seria Media Philosophy
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Introduction
Part I Aesthetics
1. Continuity versus Discreteness
2. Computation
3. Processes
Part II Abstraction
4. Computational Idealism
5. Axiomatics
6. Limits and Potential
Part III Experience
7. Computational Empiricism
8. Factuality
9. Actuality
Conclusion
Part I Aesthetics
1. Continuity versus Discreteness
2. Computation
3. Processes
Part II Abstraction
4. Computational Idealism
5. Axiomatics
6. Limits and Potential
Part III Experience
7. Computational Empiricism
8. Factuality
9. Actuality
Conclusion
Recenzii
Contingent Computation by M. Beatrice Fazi is a brilliantly original work arguing that the contingent does not lie outside computation but at its very heart, in the demonstrations by Gödel and Turing that some problems are incomputable and that formal systems, including computational axiomatics, are incomplete. Her approach opens our understanding of what computers can-and cannot-do to new modes of analysis that introduce contingency into technical systems in an entirely new way, refuting views that see computers as merely mechanical systems incapable of novelty. Highly recommended for humanities scholars and others interested in thinking about the role that computers play in a world that remains unknowable in its full complexity.
This remarkable book proposes a radically new vision of computation: one that will equally surprise the rationalists and cognitivists, on the one hand, and the vitalists and affectivists, on the other. M. Beatrice Fazi shows how Turing-style computing -- logical, discrete, and pre-programmed as it is -- also necessarily involves indeterminacy, novelty, and invention.
Contingent Computation provides many of the keys to understanding how computing now becomes the reality-forming device par excellence. At the same time, this daring and rigorous book offers new tools for aesthetics.
From aesthetics to abstraction and onwards to experience, M. Beatrice Fazi argues against the usual clichés about computation. Contingent Computation shows that media theorists and machines should be valued based at least on one thing in common: they don't do just what you expect them to. Fazi's take on computational indeterminacy is rigorous, rich and rewarding.
Digital computation originated from formalizing the limits rather than the data processing power of computation. In the true spirit of the Media Philosophy book series, Fazi takes this as a chance to rethink the computer in favor of the unpredictable. While her argumentation, through the lenses of Whiteheadean terms, insists on the author's "me" against the computational "it", it will be emerging non-classical computers themselves which will truly appreciate the message of this book.
This remarkable book proposes a radically new vision of computation: one that will equally surprise the rationalists and cognitivists, on the one hand, and the vitalists and affectivists, on the other. M. Beatrice Fazi shows how Turing-style computing -- logical, discrete, and pre-programmed as it is -- also necessarily involves indeterminacy, novelty, and invention.
Contingent Computation provides many of the keys to understanding how computing now becomes the reality-forming device par excellence. At the same time, this daring and rigorous book offers new tools for aesthetics.
From aesthetics to abstraction and onwards to experience, M. Beatrice Fazi argues against the usual clichés about computation. Contingent Computation shows that media theorists and machines should be valued based at least on one thing in common: they don't do just what you expect them to. Fazi's take on computational indeterminacy is rigorous, rich and rewarding.
Digital computation originated from formalizing the limits rather than the data processing power of computation. In the true spirit of the Media Philosophy book series, Fazi takes this as a chance to rethink the computer in favor of the unpredictable. While her argumentation, through the lenses of Whiteheadean terms, insists on the author's "me" against the computational "it", it will be emerging non-classical computers themselves which will truly appreciate the message of this book.