Paul N. Edwards, The closed world
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The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996. xx + 440 pp.
ISBN 978-0-262-05051-7; ISBN 978-0-262-55028-4.
Contents: 1. "We defend every place" : building the Cold War world
2. Why build computers? : the military role in computer research
3. Sage --
4. From operations research to the electronic battlefield --
5. Interlude : metaphor and the politics of subjectivity --
6. The machine in the middle : cybernetic psychology and World War II --
7. Noise, communication, and cognition --
8. Constructing artificial intelligence --
9. Computers and politics in Cold War II --
10. Minds, machines, and subjectivity in the closed world.
