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Aesthetics of Universal Knowledge

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 3319826158
ISBN-13 9783319826158
Edition Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Publisher Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture CH
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Jun 22nd, 2018
Print length 271 Pages
Weight 384 grams
Dimensions 21.10 x 14.90 x 1.80 cms
Ksh 23,400.00
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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.
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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