Archaeology of Algorithmic Artefacts
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Archaeology of Algorithmic Artefacts

  1. 215 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Archaeology of Algorithmic Artefacts

About this book

As historical processes increasingly become steeped in technology, it becomes more necessary for a discipline to emerge that is capable of comprehending these materialities to better understand the fields they inundate such as science, art, and warfare. This effort is further compromised by the inherent complexity and complete arbitrariness of technical languages—especially when they are algorithmic—along with the rapid pace in which they become obsolete, unintelligible, or simply forgotten. The Turing Machine plays a central role in the Archaeology of Algorithmic Artefacts, wherein the gradual developments of the individual components encompassed by this complex technology are placed within the context of engineering sciences and the history of inventions. This genealogy also traces the origin of the computer in mathematics, meta-mathematics, combinatorics, cryptology, philosophy, and physics. The investigations reveal that the history of apparatuses that process signs is in no way limited to the second half of the twentieth century; rather, it is possible they existed at all times and in all cultures.


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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Archaeology of Algorithmic Artefacts
  6. Introduction
  7. while(true): On the Fluidity of Signs in Hegel, Gödel, and Turing
  8. Traces of the Mouth: Andrei Andreyevich Markov’s Mathematisation of Writing
  9. There Must Be an Angel: On the Beginnings of the Arithmetics of Rays
  10. Enigma Rebus: Prolegomena to an Archaeology of Algorithmic Artefacts
  11. Ressurecting the Bomba Kryptologiczna: A Reconstruction of the Polish Crypto Device
  12. Scrambling T-R-U-T-H: Rotating Letters as a Form of Thought
  13. Programming ENTER: Christopher Strachey’s Draughts Programme
  14. Programming Degree Zero: A Genealogy of Turing’s Machines and Algorithms
  15. Bibliographic References
  16. Picture Credits