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Models and World Making

Name: Models and World Making
Brand: University of Virginia Press
SKU: 9780813946993
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Bodies, Buildings, Black Boxes

Autor: Annabel Jane Wharton

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: University of Virginia Press

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From climate change forecasts and pandemic maps to Lego sets and Ancestry algorithms, models encompa...

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Autor

Annabel Jane Wharton

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2021

strony

248

EAN

9780813946993

ISBN

0813946999

Enbook ID

35612595

Wydawca

University of Virginia Press

Waga

294

Wymiary

152 x 229

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From climate change forecasts and pandemic maps to Lego sets and Ancestry algorithms, models encompass our world and our lives. In her thought-provoking new book, Annabel Wharton begins with a definition drawn from the quantitative sciences and the philosophy of science but holds that history and critical cultural theory are essential to a fuller understanding of modeling. Considering changes in the medical body model and the architectural model, from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, Wharton demonstrates the ways in which all models are historical and political.

Examining how cadavers have been described, exhibited, and visually rendered, she highlights the historical dimension of the modified body and its depictions. Analyzing the varied reworkings of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem-including by monumental commanderies of the Knights Templar, Alberti's Rucellai Tomb in Florence, Franciscans' olive wood replicas, and video game renderings-she foregrounds the political force of architectural representations. And considering black boxes-instruments whose inputs we control and whose outputs we interpret, but whose inner workings are beyond our comprehension-she surveys the threats posed by such opaque computational models, warning of the dangers that models pose when humans lose control of the means by which they are generated and understood. Engaging and wide-ranging, Models and World Making conjures new ways of seeing and critically evaluating how we make and remake the world in which we live.

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