Osiris, Volume 38: Beyond Craft and Code: Human and Algorithmic Cultures, Past and Present Volume 38 Evans James

Perceptively explores the shifting intersections between algorithmic systems and human practices in the modern era.How have algorithmic systems and human practices developed in tandem since 1800? Instead, algorithms and humans have always acted in concert, depending on each other to advance new knowledge and produce social consequences. This volume of Osiris deftly addresses the question, dispelling along the way the traditional notion of algorithmic "code" and human "craft" as natural opposites.

Traversing a range of cases and arguments that connect By shining light on alternative computational imaginaries, Beyond Craft and Code opens fresh space in which to understand algorithmic diversity, its governance, and even its conservation.The volume contains essays by experts in fields extending from early modern arithmetic to contemporary robotics.