Information ages : literacy, numeracy, and the computer revolution

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgments = xi
• Introduction Information Present and Past = 1
• PART Ⅰ. THE CLASSICAL AGE OF LITERACY
• 1 Orality and the Problem of Memory = 11
• The Mirror of Literacy = 11
• Homer and the Oral Tradition = 17
• The Nature of Commemoration = 22
• From Commemoration to Information = 27
• 2 Early Literacy and List Making = 32
• The Mysterious Invention = 32
• Tokens, Emblems, and the Evolution of Accounting = 35
• From Token Iteration to Emblem Slotting = 38
• The Evolution of Writing from Information to Technology of Communication = 41
• Literacy and List Making in Mesopotamia = 45
• The Anatomy of a List = 51
• 3 Alphabetic Literacy and the Science of Classification = 62
• The Effects of Alphabetic Literacy = 62
• The Nature and Origin of the Alphabet = 65
• Hesiod : From Genealogy to Genos = 69
• Plato and the Art of Classification = 73
• Aristotle and the Science of Classification = 77
• PART Ⅱ. THE MODERN AGE OF NUMERACY
• 4 Printing and the Rupture of Classification = 87
• A Surfeit of Books = 87
• Medieval Antecedents = 90
• Rhetoric and the Rise of Commonplace Thought = 96
• The Breakdown of Commonplace Thought = 100
• The Skeptical Crisis = 106
• 5 Numeracy, Analysis, and the Reintegration of Knowledge = 112
• Descartes's Dream = 112
• The Hallmarks of Early Numeracy = 116
• Vi$$\bprime e$$te and the Beginnings of Modern Analysis = 123
• Descartes's Analytical Achievement = 126
• A New Way of Informing = 133
• The Reintegration of Knowledge = 136
• 6 The Analytical World Map = 146
• The Black Box = 146
• From Descartes to the Encyclopedia : The Calculus and Classical Physics = 150
• D'Alembert's Phantoms = 161
• The Encyclopedic Arrangement = 166
• Analysis Triumphant = 170
• PART Ⅲ. THE CONTEMPORARY AGE OF COMPUTERS
• 7 Analysis Uprooted = 175
• Babbage and the Analytical Engine = 175
• The Attenuations of Mathematical Physics = 179
• Language as Symbolic Analysis : De Morgan and Boole = 187
• The Erosion of Analytical Foundations = 198
• 8 The Realm of Pure Technique = 201
• Information in the Contemporary Age = 201
• Electronic Information : The Computer = 205
• Turing and the Logic of Micro-information = 213
• The von Neumann Flow = 218
• The Power of Pure Technique = 224
• 9 Information Play = 235
• From Power to Play = 235
• The Profusion of Play = 238
• Chaos and the Sciences of Complexity = 241
• Emergence = 248
• The Play of Pure Technique = 257
• Conclusion The Two Cultures and the Arrow of Time = 260
• Notes = 269
• Bibliographical Essay = 279
• Index = 295