...John Lardas Modern The anthropologist E. B. Tylor conjured the will as the latent promise of freedom against a backdrop of technological innovation, colonial aspirations, Victorian spiritualism, the cybernetic gestures of Charles Babbage, and theories of primitive arithmetic. Through his “science...

... “the will to systematize.” Through a discussion of the famous anthropologist E. B. Tylor’s seminal defining of the culture concept, his family business of private urinals, and the engineering fantasies of Charles Babbage, Modern points...