The Ends of Knowledge (eBook, ePUB)

Outcomes and Endpoints Across the Arts and Sciences
Redaktion: King, Rachael Scarborough; Rudy, Seth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together an exciting group of knowledge workers, scholars and activists from across fields, this book revisits a foundational question of the Enlightenment: what is "the last or furthest end of knowledge"? It is a book about why we do what we do, and how we might know when we are done.

In the reorganization of knowledge that characterized the Enlightenment, disciplines were conceived as having particular "ends," both in terms of purposes and end-points. As we experience an ongoing shift to the knowledge economy of the Information Age, this collection asks whether we still conceptualize knowledge in this way. Does an individual discipline have both an inherent purpose and a natural endpoint? What do an experiment on a fruit fly, a reading of a poem, and the writing of a line of code have in common?

Focusing on areas as diverse as AI; biology; Black studies; literary studies; physics; political activism; and the concept of disciplinarity itself, contributors uncover a life after disciplinarity for subjects that face immediate threats to the structure if not the substance of their contributions. These essays - whether reflective, historical, eulogistic, or polemical - chart a vital and necessary course towards the reorganization of knowledge production as a whole.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350242319
• Artikelnr.: 67731194

Autorenporträt

Rachael Scarborough King is Associate Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara, USA; she studies the literature and media of the long eighteenth century, with particular interests in newspapers, periodicals, and letters. She is the author of Writing to the World: Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres and editor of After Print: Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Cultures. She completed her Ph.D. in English and American Literature at New York University, and her B.A. in Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Seth Rudy is Associate Professor and Charles M. Glover Chair of English at Rhodes College, USA, where he studies the history of ideas and encyclopedic knowledge projects of the eighteenth century. He is the author of Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain: The Pursuit of Complete Knowledge (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). He completed his Ph.D. in English and American Literature at New York University, and his BFA in Film Production at the Tisch School of the Arts.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Seth Rudy and Rachael Scarborough King Part I:
Unification The Ends of Physics B. R. Brown The Ends of Literary Studies
Aaron Hanlon The Ends of Computing Geoffrey C. Bowker The Ends of Biology
B.N. Queenan The Ends of Digital Humanities Mark Algee-Hewitt Part II:
Access The Ends of Law Yochai Benkler The Ends of Journalism Jolene
Almendarez The Ends of Pedagogy Sean Michael Morris The Ends of the Liberal
Arts G. Gabrielle Starr Part III: Utopia The Ends of Artificial
Intelligence Hong Qu The Ends of Gender Studies Ula Lukszo Klein The Ends
of Activism Ady Barkan The Ends of Environmental Studies Myanna Lahsen
Part IV: Concepts The Ends of Performance Studies Jessica Nakamura The Ends
of History Marieke Hendriksen The Ends of Black Studies Kenneth W. Warren
The Ends of Cultural Studies Mike Hill Afterword Clifford Siskin List of
Contributors Index