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Aesthetics of Universal Knowledge (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Aesthetics of Universal Knowledge (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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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. 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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