The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America
The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America
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封闭的世界：计算机与冷战美国的话语政治
DOI：
10.7551/mitpress/1871.001.0001
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1996
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Paul N. Edwards
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Paul N. Edwards
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《封闭世界》为计算机和认知科学的经典历史提供了一个激进的替代方案。保罗·爱德华兹认为，只有当我们同时掌握计算机作为隐喻和政治图标的角色时，我们才能理解计算机作为工具的意义，他展示了冷战时期的社会和文化背景如何塑造了新兴的计算机技术，并反过来被信息机器所改变。《封闭的世界》通过美国政治想象的透镜探索了三个明显不同的历史--美国全球权力的历史、计算机机器的历史以及科学和文化中的主体性的历史。在这个过程中，它揭示了冷战军事项目之间的密切联系，数字计算机的发展，以及控制论，认知心理学和人工智能的起源。
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The Closed World offers a radical alternative to the canonical histories of computers and cognitive science. Arguing that we can make sense of computers as tools only when we simultaneously grasp their roles as metaphors and political icons, Paul Edwards shows how Cold War social and cultural contexts shaped emerging computer technology - and were transformed, in turn, by information machines. The Closed World explores three apparently disparate histories - the history of American global power, the history of computing machines, and the history of subjectivity in science and culture - through the lens of the American political imagination. In the process, it reveals intimate links among the military projects of the Cold War, the evolution of digital computers, and the origins of cybernetics, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence.