Steven Shapin: The Scientific Revolution (1996)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1600s, history of science, knowledge production, natural philosophy, science, scientific revolution
“‘There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it.’ With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins his bold vibrant exploration of the origins of the modern scientific worldview.”
Publisher University of Chicago Press, 1996
Science.Culture series
ISBN 0226750205, 0226750213
xiv+218 pages
Reviews: Joseph E. Bauer (H-Net), Margaret J. Osler (Configurations), A.S. Weber (16th Century Journal), D. Bertoloni Meli (Early Science and Medicine), Robert Ward (Soundings).
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Comments (2)transversal, 01/13: The Languages of the Banlieues (2013) [EN, DE, FR, Arabic]
Filed under journal | Tags: · capitalism, cognitive capitalism, geopolitics, knowledge, knowledge production, labour, theory
“The crises within cognitive capitalism and cognitive labor are mirrored in the reproduction and exacerbation of global divisions of labor and the emergence of new forms of exploitation as part of a regime of flexible capital accumulation. While drastic austerity measures and heightened control mechanisms lead to a radical transformation of the welfare state on the one hand, new networks of communication, struggle and alternative forms of knowledge emerge on the other.
This issue of transversal attempts to review some of the general assumptions of a theory of cognitive capitalism and to unsettle the very notions of knowledge and its production, discussing the conditions of its capture, its “re-invention” and its capacity for creating worlds. The individual essays follow the lines of a (post-)colonial historicity and a feminist and geopolitical critique of capitalist valorization, thereby questioning the materiality of knowledge and its production in relation to resources and bodies, as well as how art and knowledge production are interwoven with political struggles.” (Editorial)
With contributions by Anne Querrien, Marc Hatzfeld, Amina Bensalah/Myriam Suchet, Boris Seguin, Sonia Chikh (Les engraineurs), Abdoulah Bensaid (Musik à Venir), Françoise Dibotto Soppi.
Editors: Lina Dokuzović, Therese Kaufmann, Raimund Minichbauer, Radostina Patulova
Publisher eipcp – European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies, Vienna/Linz
Copyleft
ISSN 1811-1696
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Hayden White: Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1973)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1800s, historiography, history, history of philosophy, knowledge production, philosophy, philosophy of history, synecdoche
In White’s view, beyond the surface level of the historical text, there is a deep structural, or latent, content that is generally poetic and specifically linguistic in nature. This deeper content – the metahistorical element – indicates what an “appropriate” historical explanation should be.
Publisher The John Hopkins University Press, 1973
Johns Hopkins Paperbacks edition, 1975
ISBN 0801817617, 9780801817618
464 pages