Promiscuous Knowledge: Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History

by John Durham Peters and Kenneth Cmiel

Sergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, once compared the perfect search engine to "the mind of God." As the modern face of promiscuous knowledge, however, Google's divine omniscience traffics in news, maps, weather, and porn indifferently. This book, begun by the late Kenneth Cmiel and completed by his close friend John Durham Peters, provides a genealogy of the information age from its early origins up to the reign of Google. It examines how we think...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022661185X
• ISBN13: 9780226611853
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"