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Living by Numbers: In Defence of Quantity
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Description for Living by Numbers: In Defence of Quantity
Hardback. Ideas about numbers, magnitudes and frequencies shape and give texture to almost everything we feel, say, dream and do. In Living by Numbers, Steven Connor explores the many ways in which we live in, and by, a world of numbers. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: PDZM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 146 x 32. Weight in Grams: 504.
Ideas about numbers, magnitudes and frequencies shape and give texture to almost everything we feel, say, dream and do. In Living by Numbers, Steven Connor explores the many ways in which we live in, and by, a world of numbers.Connor homes in on the unsuspected weirdness of the number one, the links between horror, counting and the uncountable, and the close associations of numbers and death. He considers the way we make sense of crowds, swarms, masses and multitudes, and demonstrates the work of calculation that is always present in poems, jokes, laughter and pleasure. He shows how we use ... Read more
Ideas about numbers, magnitudes and frequencies shape and give texture to almost everything we feel, say, dream and do. In Living by Numbers, Steven Connor explores the many ways in which we live in, and by, a world of numbers.Connor homes in on the unsuspected weirdness of the number one, the links between horror, counting and the uncountable, and the close associations of numbers and death. He considers the way we make sense of crowds, swarms, masses and multitudes, and demonstrates the work of calculation that is always present in poems, jokes, laughter and pleasure. He shows how we use ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
504g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780236469
SKU
V9781780236469
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99-15
About Unknown
Steven Connor is Grace 2 Professor of English at the University of Cambridge, and the author of books on many different subjects, including The Matter of Air (2010), A Philosophy of Sport (2011) and Beyond Words: Sobs, Hums, Stutters and Other Vocalizations (2014), all published by Reaktion Books.
Reviews for Living by Numbers: In Defence of Quantity
My favorite polymath now deconstructs anti-numerical animus within the humanities and the number magic of the statistical ideologues. Conner finds number everywhere: meter, rhythm, cycle, pattern, repetition, street numbers, PIN numbers, grids, graphs, tipping points, multitudes and the masses. His criticisms of critique notwithstanding, no humanist has thought more deeply about number in everyday life since before the rationalization of ... Read more