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Aesthetics of universal knowledge

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Aesthetics of universal knowledge/ edited by Simon Schaffer, John Tresch, Pasquale Gagliardi.
other author:	Schaffer, Simon.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2017.,
Description:	xxi, 271 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Aesthetics. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42595-5
ISBN:	9783319425955

Aesthetics of universal knowledge
Aesthetics of universal knowledge[electronic resource] /edited by Simon Schaffer, John Tresch, Pasquale Gagliardi. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - xxi, 271 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

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.

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.

ISBN: 9783319425955

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-42595-5doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

555008
Aesthetics.

LC Class. No.: BH39 / .A37 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 701.17

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