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Title

Playful intelligence

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  • Text
  • Monograph

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Subject

Language

Illustrative Content

Classification

  • PHI026000
  • LCC: PN56.T37 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
  • COM012040
  • DDC: 809/.93356 (Assigner: dlc)

Content

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Summary

"This is a guide, in theory and in practice, to how current technological changes have impacted our interaction with texts and with each other. Henry Sussman rereads pivotal moments in literary, philosophical, and cultural modernity as anticipating the cybernetic discourse that has increasingly defined theory since the computer revolution. Cognitive science, psychoanalysis, and systems theory are paralleled to current trends in literary and philosophical theory. Chapters alternate between theory and readings of literary texts, resulting in a broad but rigorously grounded framework for the relation between literature and computer science. This book is a refreshing perspective on the analog-orientated tradition of theory in the humanities - and offers the first literary-textual genealogy of the digital"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Preface. Reading Kandinsky. From The Brothers K. to Joseph K.: The Digitization of Literature. The Calculable, the Incalculable and the Rest: Kafka's Virtual Environment. Urban Introjections: Berlin Alexanderplatz. Theory on the Fly: Critical Synthesis under Conditions of Material Pirating and Borrowed Time. Playful Healing: The Transitions of D. W. Winnicott. The Figure in the Network: Douglas Hofstadter and the Ethics of Intelligence. The Phenomenology of Jetlag Afterword: Healing, Systematically Notes and References Index.

Authorized Access Point

Sussman, Henry. Playful intelligence

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  • Date: 2026-09-11T20:14:53.380536+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 23978949

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  • Date: 2026-09-11
  • Cataloger id: Unknown
  • Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
  • Description language: eng
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