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Ted Striphas, "Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet" (Columbia UP, 2023)
In this episode, Ted Striphas, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera and Alex Rivera Cartagena discuss Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet
(Columbia University Press 2023), considering how some pre-digital
human systems functioned through repetitive structures and automated
processes that have similarities to electronic algorithms. They discuss
how cognition has become digitized, dispersed across algorithmic and
biological systems, and how digital tools attempt to overtake lived
experiences and knowledges.
Their conversation traces the history of computation while engaging
culture and language as analytical tools. Their dialogue connects analog
media, cultural practices, and symbolic systems to reflect on the
importance of words in the human experience. Long before digital code,
verbal narratives shaped (or attempted to shape) our relationship with
knowledge and power; building on that insight, an important analytical
point to critique algorithms begins with culture, and that culture
begins in language.
This episode and the Instituto Nuevos Horizontes are sponsored in part by the Teagle Foundation.
Our conversation in Spanish about Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet is available here.
Topics and scholars mentioned in this episode:
Héctor José Huyke, Elogio a las cercanías: crítica a la cultura tecnológica actual (Editora Educación Emergente, 2024).
The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control (Columbia University Press, 2011).
Pluriverse, A Post-Development Dictionary (Columbia University Press, 2019), edited by Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria, and Alberto Acosta.
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In this episode, Ted Striphas, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera and Alex Rivera Cartagena discuss Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet
(Columbia University Press 2023), considering how some pre-digital
human systems functioned through repetitive structures and automated
processes that have similarities to electronic algorithms. They discuss
how cognition has become digitized, dispersed across algorithmic and
biological systems, and how digital tools attempt to overtake lived
experiences and knowledges.
Their conversation traces the history of computation while engaging
culture and language as analytical tools. Their dialogue connects analog
media, cultural practices, and symbolic systems to reflect on the
importance of words in the human experience. Long before digital code,
verbal narratives shaped (or attempted to shape) our relationship with
knowledge and power; building on that insight, an important analytical
point to critique algorithms begins with culture, and that culture
begins in language.
This episode and the Instituto Nuevos Horizontes are sponsored in part by the Teagle Foundation.
Our conversation in Spanish about Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet is available here.
Topics and scholars mentioned in this episode:
Héctor José Huyke, Elogio a las cercanías: crítica a la cultura tecnológica actual (Editora Educación Emergente, 2024).
The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control (Columbia University Press, 2011).
Pluriverse, A Post-Development Dictionary (Columbia University Press, 2019), edited by Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria, and Alberto Acosta.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/technology
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