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The Craft and Code Binary: Before, During, and After (2023)

Evans, James (Author)
Tyler Reigeluth (Author)
Johns, Adrian (Author)

Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 38
Pages: 19-39
Publication date: 2023
Language: English

URI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/725089

DOI: 10.1086/725089

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Human-machine systems Human-machine interaction Knowledge and learning Machine learning Algorithms Artificial intelligence Science studies, as a discipline Imperialism Factories Industrialization 21st century 20th century 19th century

This chapter articulates the binary between craft and code that animates the volume as a whole. This binary was developed in the nineteenth century (although precedents can be identified much earlier), when it became an important element in debates about factory rationality, industrialization, and empire. It was subsequently adopted by historians, philosophers, and sociologists of science, becoming a key ingredient in the “science studies” that emerged in the 1960s–1990s. Debates about “learning” cross-fertilized with work in early artificial intelligence, such that notions of craft and code helped structure the development of algorithmic culture itself. Subsequent machine learning practices further complicated this relationship. Human/AI assemblages can no longer be comprehended in terms of a binary that may have been appropriate for earlier conceptions of human reasoning and mechanistic algorithms. Transcending that binary is critical not only for understanding the current algorithmic age but also for governing its evolution.

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Article James Evans; Adrian Johns (2023) Introduction: How and Why to Historicize Algorithmic Cultures. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 1-15). unapi

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