Geography's Quantitative Revolutions: Edward A. Ackerman and the Cold War Origins of Big Data

"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"--

Author: Elvin Wyly
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 11/01/2019
Pages: 168
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781949199093
ISBN10: 1949199096
BISAC Categories:
- Technology & Engineering | Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems
- Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
- Political Science | Privacy & Surveillance (see also Social Science | Privacy &

About the Author

Elvin Wyly is a professor of geography and chair of the Urban Studies Coordinating Committee at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and former editor in chief of the journal Urban Geography.