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

"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
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 11/01/2019
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781949199093