Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age: From Method to Metaphor
Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age puts the theoretical discussion of computer systems and information technology on a new footing. Shifting the discourse from its usual rationalistic framework, Richard Coyne shows how the conception, development, and application of computer systems is challenged and enhanced by postmodern philosophical thought. He places particular emphasis on the theory of metaphor, showing how it has more to offer than notions of method and models appropriated from science.Coyne examines the entire range of contemporary philosophical thinking -- including logical positivism, analytic philosophy, pragmat…
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Weitere Autoren: Malina, Roger F. (Hrsg.) / Cubitt, Sean (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-262-51894-9
- EAN: 9780262518949
- Produktnummer: 14724732
- Verlag: Mit Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
- Seitenangabe: 399 S.
- Masse: H22.6 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.3 cm 544 g
- Gewicht: 544
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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Richard Coyne is Professor and Chair of Architectural Computing, University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age: From Method to Metaphor (1995), Technoromanticism: Digital Narrative, Holism, and the Romance of the Real (2001), and Cornucopia Limited: Design and Dissent on the Internet (2005), all published by the MIT Press.
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