I'm not done with it but so far it's been an epistemological history lesson that has me thinking a lot about how the current era of Big Data / rising ubiquity of mechanical objectivity (esp photography — from WWI photojournalism to google earth) has been altering humanity on all fronts, from the sciences to the arts to the justice system... particularly how seeking truth is seemingly no longer a burden when everything is recorded by computers, yet at the same time there is still the very real burden of communication (presentation/interpretation) when said data is given an audience.
I'm not done with it but so far it's been an epistemological history lesson that has me thinking a lot about how the current era of Big Data / rising ubiquity of mechanical objectivity (esp photography — from WWI photojournalism to google earth) has been altering humanity on all fronts, from the sciences to the arts to the justice system... particularly how seeking truth is seemingly no longer a burden when everything is recorded by computers, yet at the same time there is still the very real burden of communication (presentation/interpretation) when said data is given an audience.