本课程的特点是：提供了许多
课堂讲稿，另外，在
相关阅读资料部分还列出完整的书目资料。This course features
notes for many of the lectures, plus a full bibliography in the
readings section.
本课程系以人类学的观点探讨计算机，显示过去生产计算机的社会和文化秩序。我们的阅读内容包括计算机科学的经典著作，以及分析机器与文化的关系的文章。本课程将研讨早期的计算理论与资本主义的制造业；控制学与二次世界大战运作的研究；人工智能与性别主观性；个人计算机的产生和商品化；黑客美学；非西方国家的计算学历史；网络在军事、学术、以及商业上的发展；网络空间的身份政治学；以及″进化″计算学的崛起。This course examines computers anthropologically, as meaningful tools revealing the social and cultural orders that produce them. We read classic texts in computer science along with works analyzing links between machines and culture. We explore early computation theory and capitalist manufacturing; cybernetics and WWII operations research; artificial intelligence and gendered subjectivity; the creation and commodification of the personal computer; the hacking aesthetic; non-Western histories of computing; the growth of the Internet as a military, academic, and commercial project; the politics of identity in cyberspace; and the emergence of "evolutionary" computation.
