Is language "analog"?

Open Access Now 2016-07-22

Summary:

David Golumbia's 2009 book The Cultural Logic of Computation argues that "the current vogue for computation" covertly revives an "old belief system — that something like rational calculation might account for every part of the material world, and especially the social and mental worlds". Golumbia believes that this is a bad thing. I have nothing to say here about the […]

Link:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=26786

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Tags:

language and culture

Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

07/22/2016, 10:44

Date published:

07/17/2016, 16:09