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Author Mulvin, Dylan, author

Title Proxies : the cultural work of standing in / Dylan Mulvin
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Infrastructures series
Infrastructures series.
Contents Samples of the world out there : the surrogate logic of proxies -- How to clean a kilogram : standards, data hygiene, and the theater of objectivity -- The visual culture of image engineers (or the Lena image, part 1) -- Proxy justice (or the Lena image, part 2) -- Living proxies : the standardized patient program -- Canned chance : methods for following infrastructure
Summary "A history of proxies and how they are made, shaped, and maintained"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Simulation methods -- History
Standardization -- Social aspects -- History
Analogy.
analogy.
Analogy
Simulation methods
Standardization -- Social aspects
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020050161
ISBN 026236624X
9780262366243
9780262361941
0262361949