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Geography's Quantitative Revolutions: Edward A. Ackerman and the Cold War Origins of Big Data Elvin Wyly
Geography's Quantitative Revolutions: Edward A. Ackerman and the Cold War Origins of Big Data
Elvin Wyly
Traces the recent history of geography, information, and technology through the biography of Edward A. Ackerman, an important figure in geography's ""quantitative revolution"". The book argues that Ackerman's work helped encode the hidden logics of a distorted philosophical heritage into the network architectures of surveillance capitalism.
168 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 1, 2019 |
| ISBN13 | 9781949199086 |
| Publishers | West Virginia University Press |
| Pages | 168 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 294 g |
| Language | English |
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