@article{807114,
      recid = {807114},
      author = {Schaffer, Simon, and Tresch, John, and Gagliardi,  Pasquale,},
      title = {Aesthetics of universal knowledge /},
      pages = {1 online resource (250 pages) :},
      abstract = {Born out of a major international dialogue held at the  Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, Italy, this collection  of essays presents innovative and provocative arguments  about the claims of universal knowledge schemes and the  different aesthetic and material forms in which such claims  have been made and executed. Contributors take a close look  at everything from religious pilgrimages, museums, and maps  of the world, to search engines and automated GPS. Current  obsessions in information technology, communications  theory, and digital culture often concern the value and  possibility of a grand accumulation of universally  accessible forms of knowledge: total libraries, open data  bases, ubiquitous computing, and ‘smart’ technologies.  These obsessions have important social and philosophical  origins, and they raise profound questions about the very  nature of knowledge and its organization. This volume’s  contributors draw on the histories of maps and of  encyclopedias, worldviews and visionary collections, to  make sense of the crucial relation between the way the  world is known and how it might be displayed and  transformed. .},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/807114},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42595-5},
}