Books
|
Buy Now
Media and the Mind - Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830 (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R1,574
Discovery Miles 15 740
|
|
Media and the Mind - Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830 (Hardcover)
Expected to ship within 9 - 15 working days
|
A beautifully illustrated argument that reveals notebooks as
extraordinary paper machines that transformed knowledge on the page
and in the mind. Information is often characterized as facts that
float effortlessly across time and space. But before the nineteenth
century, information was seen as a process that included a set of
skills enacted through media on a daily basis. How, why, and where
were these mediated facts and skills learned? Concentrating on
manuscripts created by students in Scotland between 1700 and 1830,
Matthew Daniel Eddy argues that notebooks functioned as workshops
where notekeepers learned to judge the accuracy, utility, and
morality of the data they encountered. He shows that, in an age
preoccupied with "enlightened" values, the skills and materials
required to make and use notebooks were not simply aids to
reason—they were part of reason itself. Covering a rich selection
of material and visual media ranging from hand-stitched bindings to
watercolor paintings, the book problematizes John Locke's
comparison of the mind to a blank piece of paper, the tabula rasa.
Although one of the most recognizable metaphors of the British
Enlightenment, scholars seldom consider why it was so successful
for those who used it. Eddy makes a case for using the material
culture of early modern manuscripts to expand the meaning of the
metaphor in a way that offers a clearer understanding of the direct
relationship that existed between thinking and notekeeping.
Starting in the home, moving to schools, and then ending with
universities, the book explores this argument by reconstructing the
relationship between media and the mind from the bottom up.
General
Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 2023 |
First published: |
2022 |
Authors: |
Matthew Daniel Eddy
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 46mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
512 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-18386-2 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-226-18386-6 |
Barcode: |
9780226183862 |
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.