Orit Halpern, “Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945” (Duke UP, 2014) - a podcast by Marshall Poe

The second half of the twentieth century saw a radical transformation in approaches to recording and displaying information. Orit Halpern‘s new book traces the emergence of the “communicative objectivity” that resulted from this shift and produced new forms of observation, rationality, and economy. Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and...
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