This volume 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. This collection of essays and debates is the result of a major international dialogue held at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, Italy.
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 volumes 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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1 Text and Context: Genius Loci (A Preface) |
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Part I Visions: How Aesthetics and Museology Affect the Ways in Which Worlds can be Shown and Known |
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3 Re-visioning the World: Mapping the Lithosphere |
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4 Architects of Knowledge |
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5 Pictorialism (Prelude and Fugue) |
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6 The Unending Quantity of Objects: An Observation on Museums and Their Presentation Modes |
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Part II Worlds: How the Performance of Cosmologies can Change the Way the Moral History of the World is Told and Understood |
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7 Cosmopragmatics and Petabytes |
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8 Gaia or Knowledge without Spheres |
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9 Mapping Dark Matter and the Venice Paradox |
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Part III Economies: How Different Models of Knowledge and Their Contents Matter to Politics and Society |
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10 The Web, Google, and Cosmograms |
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11 Rhetoric, Economics, and Nature |
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Simon Schaffer is Professor of History of Science at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of La fabrique des sciences modernes and the coeditor of The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences. John Tresch is Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon, among other works.
Pasquale Gagliardi, former Professor of Sociology of Organizations at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, is now Secretary General of the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice, Italy. He is the author of Symbols & Artifacts. Views of the Corporate Landscape and Le imprese come culture, among other books.
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