Aesthetics of universal knowledge / Simon Schaffer; John Tresch, Pasquale Gagliardi, editors.
Schaffer, Simon, 1955- editor.; Tresch, John, 1972- editor.; Gagliardi, Pasquale, 1936- editor.
2017
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Title Aesthetics of universal knowledge / Simon Schaffer; John Tresch, Pasquale Gagliardi, editors.
ISBN 9783319425955 (electronic book)
3319425951 (electronic book)
9783319425948
3319425943
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42595-5
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (250 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-42595-5 doi
Call Number BH39
Dewey Decimal Classification 701.17
Summary 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. .
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Added Author Schaffer, Simon, 1955- editor.
Tresch, John, 1972- editor.
Gagliardi, Pasquale, 1936- editor.
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Preface: Text And Context: Genius Loci; Pasquale Gagliardi
Introduction; Simon Schaffer
Part I. Visions
1. Re-Visioning The World: Mapping The Lithosphere; Adam Lowe And Jerry Brotton
2. Architects Of Knowledge; Pierre Chabard
3. Pictorialism (Prelude & Fugue); Cheryce Von Xylander
4. The Unending Quantity Of Objects: An Observation On Museums And Their Presentation Modes; Anke Te Heesen
Part II. Worlds
5. Cosmopragmatics And Petabytes; John Tresch
6. Gaia Without The Sphere; Bruno Latour
7. Mapping Dark Matter And The Venice Paradox; David Turnbull
Part III. Economies
8. The Web, Google And Cosmograms; Steve Crossan
9. Rhetoric, Economics, And Nature; Deirdre N. Mccloskey
10. Lodestar; Richard Powers. .

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