Geography's quantitative revolutions : Edward A. Ackerman and the Cold War origins of big data /

Geography's quantitative revolutions : Edward A. Ackerman and the Cold War origins of big data /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Wyly, Elvin K., author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	xx, 171 pages ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Ackerman, Edward A. -- (Edward Augustus), -- 1911-1973. Geographers -- United States -- Biography. Geography -- History -- 20th century. Geography -- Philosophy. Geography -- Methodology. Geographic information systems -- History. Neo-Kantianism -- History -- 20th century. Geographers. Geographic information systems. Geography. Geography -- Methodology. Geography -- Philosophy. Neo-Kantianism. United States. Biographies. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11966568

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ISBN:	9781949199086 1949199088 9781949199093 1949199096 9781949199109
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This book traces the recent history of geography, information, and technology through the biography of Edward A. Ackerman, an important but forgotten figure in geography's 'quantitative revolution.' It argues that Ackerman's work helped encode the hidden logics of a distorted philosophical heritage -- a dangerous, cybernetic form of thought known as militant neo-Kantianism -- into the network architectures of today's pervasive worlds of surveillance capitalism"--

Table of Contents:

Ackerman's frontier
The Ackerman sample
Contradictions of "mental structuring"
Militant neo-Kantianism
The new evolution of geographic thought?
Notes on desk.