Blackman, Lisa

Haunted Data: Affect, Transmedia, Weird Science

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ISBN 13:
9781350047051
author:
Blackman, Lisa
format:
Paperback / softback
publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
language:
English
Publication Year:
2019
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
23.4 x 15.6 centimetres (0.40 kg
Genre:
Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Media Studies
Condition:
New
Availability:
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£26.51

Description

Haunted Data explores our complex relationships with data, revealing that our engagement is never as straightforward as it seems. Lisa Blackman argues that errors, misunderstandings and ghostly figures are at work in our interactions with data, challenging core assumptions about thought, consciousness and cognition.

The book delves into contemporary controversies from 'weird science', including priming and its relation to animal telepathy, artificial intelligences and psychic research. Blackman proposes a new theory of how we might engage with data and provides a nuanced survey of the historical context to contemporary debates, tracing the origins of modern computation and science back to the 19th Century.

Drawing on radical philosophies of science, feminist science studies, queer theory, cultural studies and affect studies, Haunted Data offers a manifesto for how artists, philosophers and scientists can engage creatively and critically with science within the context of digital communication.

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