Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation
Krapp, Peter
- 出版商: MIT
- 出版日期: 2024-12-03
- 售價: $1,410
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,340
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 228
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 0262549832
- ISBN-13: 9780262549837
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A media history of simulation that contextualizes our digital heritage and the history of computing. In Computing Legacies, Peter Krapp explores a media history of simulation to excavate three salient aspects of digital culture. Firstly, he profiles simulation as cultural technique, enabling symbolic work and foregrounding hypothetical literacy. Secondly, he positions simulation as crucial for the preservation of cultural memory, where modeling, emulation, and serious play are constitutive in how we relate to our mediated history. And lastly, despite suggestions that we may already live in a simulation, he interrogates how simulation can serve as critique of the computer age. In tracing our digital heritage, Computing Legacies elucidates inflection points where quantitative data becomes tractable for qualitative evaluations: modeling epidemics for scientific study or entertainment, emulating older devices, turning numerical calculations into music, conducting espionage in virtual worlds, and gamifying higher education. Simulation, this book demonstrates, is pivotal not only to high-tech research and to archives, museums, and the preservation of digital culture but also to our understanding of what it is to live and work under the technical conditions of computing.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
一部媒體歷史的模擬,為我們的數位遺產和計算歷史提供背景。
在《Computing Legacies》中,彼得·克拉普(Peter Krapp)探討了模擬的媒體歷史,以挖掘數位文化的三個顯著面向。首先,他將模擬描繪為一種文化技術,使得符號工作得以進行,並突顯假設性素養。其次,他將模擬定位為保存文化記憶的關鍵,其中建模、模擬和認真的遊戲在我們如何與媒介歷史互動中扮演了構成性角色。最後,儘管有建議我們可能已經生活在模擬中,他質疑模擬如何能夠作為對計算機時代的批判。
在追溯我們的數位遺產時,《Computing Legacies》闡明了量化數據成為質性評估可處理的轉折點:為科學研究或娛樂建模流行病、模擬舊設備、將數字計算轉化為音樂、在虛擬世界中進行間諜活動,以及將高等教育遊戲化。本書展示了模擬不僅對高科技研究、檔案館、博物館和數位文化的保存至關重要,也對我們理解在計算技術條件下生活和工作的意義具有關鍵性。
作者簡介
Peter Krapp is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine, where he is also affiliated with the departments of English, Music, and Informatics.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
彼得·克拉普是加州大學爾灣分校電影與媒體研究的教授,同時他也與英語、音樂和資訊學系有關聯。