Media, Information and Technoculture 1020E Study Guide - Final Guide: Darpa, Commodity Fetishism, Packet Switching
18 Sep 2019
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An emerging research paradigm in which understanding arises from searching massive datasets for meaningful, predictive patterns rather than for underlying explanatory laws. Meaning is generated by oppositionwhich holds that signs or words mean what they do only in opposition to others their most precise characteristic is in being what the others are not. Such binaries are a feature of culture not nature; they are products of signifying systems, and function to structure our perceptions of the natural and social world into order and meaning. Each of the terms on one side is invested with the qualities of the others on that side. This feature of binaries is highly productive of ideological meanings. Economic system in which property and the means of production are privately owned. Capitalism is based on profit motive, free enterprise, efficiency through competition and a notion of freedom of choice. It was first articulated by adam smith in his treatise the wealth of nations (1776).
