本課程的特點是：提供了許多
課堂講稿，另外，在
相關閱讀資料部分還列出完整的書目資料。This course features
notes for many of the lectures, plus a full bibliography in the
readings section.
本課程係以人類學的觀點探討電腦，顯示過去生產電腦的社會和文化秩序。我們的閱讀內容包括電腦科學的經典著作，以及分析機器與文化的關係的文章。本課程將研討早期的計算理論與資本主義的製造業；控制學與二次世界大戰運作的研究；人工智慧與性別主觀性；個人電腦的產生和商品化；駭客美學；非西方國家的計算學歷史；網路在軍事、學術、以及商業上的發展；網路空間的身份政治學；以及〞進化〞計算學的崛起。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.
