Adrian Johns: The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (1998)
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In The Nature of the Book, a tour de force of cultural history, Adrian Johns constructs an entirely original and vivid picture of print culture and its many arenas—commercial, intellectual, political, and individual.
Publisher University of Chicago Press, 1998
ISBN 0226401227, 9780226401225
753 pages
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Comment (0)Bruno Latour: Pandora’s Hope. Essays on the Reality of Science Studies (1999)
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A scientist friend asked Bruno Latour point-blank: “Do you believe in reality?” Taken aback by this strange query, Latour offers his meticulous response in Pandora’s Hope. It is a remarkable argument for understanding the reality of science in practical terms.
In this book Latour, identified by Richard Rorty as the new “bête noire of the science worshipers,” gives us his most philosophically informed book since Science in Action. Through case studies of scientists in the Amazon analyzing soil and in Pasteur’s lab studying the fermentation of lactic acid, he shows us the myriad steps by which events in the material world are transformed into items of scientific knowledge. Through many examples in the world of technology, we see how the material and human worlds come together and are reciprocally transformed in this process.
Why, Latour asks, did the idea of an independent reality, free of human interaction, emerge in the first place? His answer to this question, harking back to the debates between Might and Right narrated by Plato, points to the real stakes in the so-called science wars: the perplexed submission of ordinary people before the warring forces of claimants to the ultimate truth.
Publisher: Harvard University Press, June 1999
ISBN: 067465336X, 9780674653368
336 pages
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Comment (0)The Mag.net Reader: Experiences in Electronic Cultural Publishing (2006)
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“The story of Mag.net is the story of a networking effort by several European print magazines dealing with electronic culture. While this effort produced only mixed results and had to struggle hard for its successes, it was throughout characterised by a spirit of cooperation that had many positive effects and fostered lasting friendships among the participants.” (from the Introduction)
Contributions by Alessandro Ludovico, Slávo Krekovič, Mute, Miren Eraso, Nicolas Malevé, Monica Narula, Awadhendra Sharan and Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Christiane Fricke, Krystian Woznicki, Christian Höller, Joost Smiers & Marieke Van Schijndel.
Edited by Miren Eraso, Alexandro Ludovico, Slávo Krekovič
With introduction by Andreas Broeckmann
Publisher: Arteleku-Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa
Creative Commons license. Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5
ISBN 8479075082
122 pages
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