Orientalism and Informatics: Alterity from the Chess-Playing Turk to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

TY - JOUR

T1 - Orientalism and Informatics: Alterity from the Chess-Playing Turk to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

AU - Geoghegan, Bernard Dionysius

PY - 2020/9/1

Y1 - 2020/9/1

N2 - An examination of the role of the how figures of difference--ethnic, gendered, class--shape the history of informatics. It devotes particular attention to the history of thinking machines and the centrality of chess and "chess-playing Turk" as a figure for thinking through the philosophical aspects of AI.

AB - An examination of the role of the how figures of difference--ethnic, gendered, class--shape the history of informatics. It devotes particular attention to the history of thinking machines and the centrality of chess and "chess-playing Turk" as a figure for thinking through the philosophical aspects of AI.

KW - Orientalism

KW - AI

KW - informatics

KW - Habsburg Empire

KW - labor

KW - labour

KW - emojis

KW - theatricality

KW - chess

KW - chess-playing programs

KW - Searle

M3 - Article

SP - 45

JO - Ex-position

JF - Ex-position

IS - 43

ER -