{"product_id":"9781472568823","title":"Playful Intelligence : Digitizing Tradition","description":"\u003cstrong\u003ePlayful Intelligence\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Henry Sussman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a guide, in theory and in practice, to how current technological changes have impacted our interaction with texts and with each other. Henry Sussman rereads pivotal moments in literary, philosophical and cultural modernity as anticipating the cybernetic discourse that has increasingly defined theory since the computer revolution. Cognitive science, psychoanalysis and systems theory are paralleled to current trends in literary and philosophical theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapters alternate between theory and readings of literary texts, resulting in a broad but rigorously grounded framework for the relation between literature and computer science. This book is a refreshing perspective on the analog-orientated tradition of theory in the humanities – and offers the first literary-textual genealogy of the digital.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePlayful Intelligence\u003c\/i\u003e exemplifies the encouragement that interdisciplinary thinking can provide to critics who still believe in the salutary potential of humanistic endeavors.” – \u003ci\u003eJournal of Modern Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There is, I think, nothing out there truly comparable to \u003ci\u003ePlayful Intelligence\u003c\/i\u003e in terms of focus, insight, scope, cross-disciplinary applicability, theoretical urgency, and learning.” - Christian Moraru, University of North Carolina, USA, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781472568823\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40596194492622,"sku":"9781472568823","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_06fb500d-e4b7-48c5-9291-416ec0c165aa.jpg?v=1637852001","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781472568823","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}