The Transduction of Culture (Outline)

1. Intro­duc­tion
   1. A gen­er­al, oper­a­tional the­o­ry of cul­ture that would encom­pass the cur­rent era of Big Data and demon­strate the DH per­spec­tive.
2. Trans­duc­tion
   1. Trans­duc­tion as the trans­fer of infor­ma­tion in causal­i­ty
   2. Rela­tion­ship to oth­er def­i­n­i­tions (physics, biol­o­gy, log­ic, tech­nol­o­gy, etc.)
   3. The role selec­tion and muta­tion
   4. Mem­o­ry and mate­ri­al­i­ty
   5. Mon­ads
3. Infor­ma­tion
   1. Infor­ma­tion defined
   2. Infor­ma­tion is sub­ject to laws
   3. Infor­ma­tion and ener­gy
4. Com­mu­ni­ca­tion
   1. Shan­non
   2. Decom­pose the mod­el
   3. The role of trans­duc­tion in the mod­el
   4. Trans­duc­ers as Tur­ing Machines
   5. Saus­sure
   6. Wiener
5. Ontol­ogy
   1. Gen­er­al­ized mod­els (used as a “dia­gram­mar” through­out the book)
6. Medi­a­tion
7. Exchange
8. Cul­ture
   1. Cul­ture noto­ri­ous­ly hard to define
   2. Where is cul­ture?
   3. The role of ontol­ogy
   4. The trans­fer of ontol­ogy
   5. The mimet­ic sit­u­a­tion
   6. Trans­duc­tive plas­ma
   7. Trans­duc­tive medi­a­tion
   8. Thick medi­a­tion
9. Rit­u­als, Books, and Data­bas­es
   1. Rit­u­als and Gov­er­nance
   2. Def­i­n­i­tion
   3. Mod­els
   1. Lit­er­a­cy, nation­al­ism and the pub­lic sphere
      1. Anderson’s mod­el
   2. The Inter­net
      1. Thick medi­a­tion
      2. Cybarites
      3. Con­ta­gious Mime­sis
      4. Social action in the data­s­phere
   3. The Data­s­phere
      1. The acci­den­tal Inter­net
      2. Not the net­worked soci­ety — the data­based soci­ety
      3. The rise of the data­base
      4. Data and spheres of exchange
      5. The cos­mol­o­gy of data sci­ence
10. Trans­duc­tive medi­a­tion
11. Philo­soph­i­cal Obser­va­tions
    1. Machine Mime­sis and Machinec­do­tal Knowl­edge
       1. Data has become that which can be pro­duced, exchanged, and con­sumed by machines
       2. Machines as sub­jects
       3. The machinec­do­tal: Black box­es mean a return to the arbi­trary; a new kind of sub­jec­tivism
    2. A Return to Rit­u­al
12. Loose Ends
13. Ref­er­ence
    1. The The­o­ry of Ety­mons
    2. The Risk of Ref­er­ence
    3. The Bind­ing of the Ref­er­ent
    4. Com­par­a­tive Ontol­ogy
    5. Quan­ti­ta­tive Struc­tural­ism

CONCEPTS

• Ele­men­tary
• Trans­duc­tion
• Infor­ma­tion
• Medi­a­tion
• Com­mu­ni­ca­tion
• Exchange
• Net­works
• Co-occur­rence
• Data
• Ref­er­ence
• Com­plex
• Bayesian Net­works
• Social Neur­al Net­works
• Spheres of Exchange
• The Social Medi­um

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