04609nam a22006015i 4500 978-3-319-42595-5 DE-He213 20210625195519.0 cr nn 008mamaa 170516s2017 gw | s |||| 0|eng d 9783319425955 978-3-319-42595-5 10.1007/978-3-319-42595-5 doi B53 HP bicssc PHI021000 bisacsh QD thema 601 23 Aesthetics of Universal Knowledge [electronic resource] / edited by Simon Schaffer, John Tresch, Pasquale Gagliardi. 1st ed. 2017. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. XXI, 271 p. 57 illus., 32 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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. . Philosophy. Technology in literature. Application software. Humanities. Geographical information systems. Quantum field theory. String theory. Philosophy of Technology. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E34050 Literature and Technology/Media. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/827000 Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/I23036 Popular Science in Humanities / Arts. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q33000 Geographical Information Systems/Cartography. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/J13000 Quantum Field Theories, String Theory. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P19048 Schaffer, Simon. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt Tresch, John. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt Gagliardi, Pasquale. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783319425948 Printed edition: 9783319425962 Printed edition: 9783319826158 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42595-5 ZDB-2-REP ZDB-2-SXPR Religion and Philosophy (SpringerNature-41175) Philosophy and Religion (R0) (SpringerNature-43725)