Dustin Abnet
Biographic Data
| ID | 1083693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dustin Abnet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dustin |
| FAMILY NAME | Abnet |
| SIGNATURE | ABNET D |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Fullerton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Ascent of GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine
Willy Ley
The mid-twentieth-century science popularizer Willy Ley “defies classification,” writes Jared S. Buss at the start of this new biography (p. 1). To some a scientist, to others an engineer, historian, or prophet, he transcended categories in a life that stretched from interwar Germany to Cold War America. Above all, Buss claims, Ley was a “modern romantic” who “embraced wonder, awe, and the mysteries of nature” but also “sought to unmask, conquer,…
Control
Reviewed by: Control: Digitality as Cultural Logic by Seb Franklin Dustin Abnet (bio) Control: Digitality as Cultural Logic. By Seb Franklin. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015. Opening by invoking Daniel Bell's concept of the postindustrial society, Seb Franklin's Control: Digitality as Cultural Logic examines how and why people in the late twentieth century believed they had entered a revolutionary era defined not just by the digital computer, but …
The Cybernetics Moment
Journal Article The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age Get access By Ronald R. Kline. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. xiv, 336 pp. $54.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 283–284, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw163 Published: 01 June 2016
Imagined Frontiers
“A frontier,” Carl Abbott proclaims in Imagined Frontiers, “is an edge—a line on a map and the territories and communities that surround that line.” (3) From this definition, Abbott explores the ways that visions of frontiers—whether in South Florida, Portland, Oregon, or even the planet Mars—have shaped American culture in the second half of the twentieth century. Though he acknowledges scholarly critiques of the frontier concept, he argues that…
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The Cybernetics Moment
Journal Article The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age Get access By Ronald R. Kline. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. xiv, 336 pp. $54.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 283–284, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw163 Published: 01 June 2016
Imagined Frontiers
“A frontier,” Carl Abbott proclaims in Imagined Frontiers, “is an edge—a line on a map and the territories and communities that surround that line.” (3) From this definition, Abbott explores the ways that visions of frontiers—whether in South Florida, Portland, Oregon, or even the planet Mars—have shaped American culture in the second half of the twentieth century. Though he acknowledges scholarly critiques of the frontier concept, he argues that…
Willy Ley
The mid-twentieth-century science popularizer Willy Ley “defies classification,” writes Jared S. Buss at the start of this new biography (p. 1). To some a scientist, to others an engineer, historian, or prophet, he transcended categories in a life that stretched from interwar Germany to Cold War America. Above all, Buss claims, Ley was a “modern romantic” who “embraced wonder, awe, and the mysteries of nature” but also “sought to unmask, conquer,…
Control
Reviewed by: Control: Digitality as Cultural Logic by Seb Franklin Dustin Abnet (bio) Control: Digitality as Cultural Logic. By Seb Franklin. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015. Opening by invoking Daniel Bell's concept of the postindustrial society, Seb Franklin's Control: Digitality as Cultural Logic examines how and why people in the late twentieth century believed they had entered a revolutionary era defined not just by the digital computer, but …
The Ascent of GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine
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