System : the shaping of modern knowledge

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ISBN:

9780262336345

9780262035316

Personal Author:

Siskin, Clifford, author.

Yayın Bilgileri:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2016.

Fiziksel Tanımlama:

1 online resource

Series:

Infrastructures

Infrastructures series.

Contents:

Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PROLOGUE: "THE MOST PRIMITIVE QUESTION" -- FINDING ANSWERS -- SYSTEMS ABOVE/SYSTEMS BELOW -- THE SHAPE OF SYSTEM AND THE SHAPE OF THIS BOOK -- Part I PAST AND PRESENT-FROM THE "SYSTEM OF THE WORLD" TO A WORLD FULL OF SYSTEMS -- 1 ENGAGING SYSTEM -- SIGHTING SYSTEMS "WITH THE HELP OF A SPYGLASS LATELY DEVISED" -- TAKING HOLD-SYSTEM AS HANDSHAKE -- CHANGING OVER TIME-SYSTEM AS A GENRE -- SHAPING KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEM AS A SCALABLE TECHNOLOGY -- 2 HISTORIES FOR SYSTEMS -- SYSTEM AND HISTORY I -- THE TECTONIC MAPS -- HISTORY AMONG THE DISCIPLINES-THE NARROWING -- SYSTEM AND HISTORY II -- RECLAIMING LITERARY HISTORY -- THE HISTORY OF MEDIATION -- "PARTICULAR HISTORIES"-THE HISTORY OF BLAME AND THE HISTORY OF THE REAL -- Part II MEDIATING KNOWLEDGE-SYSTEM AND THE FATE OF ENLIGHTENMENT -- 3 THE PROJECT OF ENLIGHTENMENT (MASTER SYSTEMS) -- THE NEWTONIAN DIFFERENCE-SYSTEM AND THE REAL -- MIXED MESSAGES-"TOWARDS" SYSTEM -- MAKING MASTER SYSTEMS-STRATEGIES FOR ENLIGHTENMENT -- 4 DISCIPLINARITY (EMBEDDED AND SPECIALIZED SYSTEMS) -- ENLIGHTENMENT AND PROBABILITY-KNOWLEDGE BEFORE THE DISCIPLINES -- AFTER MASTER SYSTEMS-THE REORGANIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE -- SYSTEM AMONG THE DISCIPLINES-EMBEDDEDNESS AND TRAVEL -- MORE THINGS -- RAISING SYSTEMS -- Part III CONNECTIVITIES-SYSTEM AND THE INSTITUTING OF MODERNITY -- 5 BLAMING THE SYSTEM-INSTITUTING THE POLITICAL -- SYSTEMATIZING-SYSTEM AT WORK IN THE WORLD -- WHEN SYSTEM BECAME AN OBJECT TO BLAME -- THE POLITICS OF BLAME-THE NOVEL AND THE SYSTEM -- POLITICS AS BLAME-LIBERALISM AND THE SYSTEM -- TAKING THE BLAME-THE HANDS OF WOMEN -- 6 WRITING UPON SYSTEM-INSTITUTING CULTURE -- PARTS INTO WHOLES-SYSTEM AND THE IMPERATIVE OF CULTURE -- THE CULTURAL INSTITUTION OF LITERATURE -- THE SECRET HISTORY OF ROMANTICISM-A SYNOPSIS -- AESTHETICS, AUTHORSHIP, AND THE FATE OF SYSTEM.

7 SECRETLY SEEKING SYSTEM-INSTITUTING THE SOCIAL -- SUBJECTS FOR SYSTEMS-"THE PROSCRIBED LITTLE PERSONAGE-I" -- THE "CHARACTER OF MEMBERS"-CLUBS AS INTERFACES -- SYSTEM INCARNATE-DANCING INTO MODERNITY -- CODA -- Re:ENLIGHTENMENT (ALGORITHMICALLY ENHANCED SYSTEMS) -- "THE WHOLE ENCHILADA" -- THE PERSISTENCE OF SYSTEM -- APPENDIX A: NOTES ON VISUALIZATION -- THE SCATTER PLOTS -- THE TECTONIC DIAGRAMS -- TECHNICAL NOTES -- APPENDIX B: TITLES CONTAINING ESSAY(S) IN THE PLURAL VERSUS THE SINGULAR -- NOTES -- PROLOGUE -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- CODA -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

Abstract:

"A system can describe what we see (the solar system), operate a computer (Windows 10), or be made on a page (the fourteen engineered lines of a sonnet). In this book, Clifford Siskin shows that system is best understood as a genre -- a form that works physically in the world to mediate our efforts to understand it. Indeed, many Enlightenment authors published works they called "system" to compete with the essay and the treatise. Drawing on the history of system from Galileo's "message from the stars" and Newton's "system of the world" to today's "computational universe," Siskin illuminates the role that the genre of system has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge. Previous engagements with systems have involved making them, using them, or imagining better ones. Siskin offers an innovative perspective by investigating system itself. He considers the past and present, moving from the "system of the world" to "a world full of systems." He traces the turn t system in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and describes this primary form of Enlightenment as a mediator of political, cultural, and social modernity -- pointing to the moment when people began to "blame the system" for working both too well ("you can't beat the system") and not well enough (it always seems to "break down"). Throughout, his touchstones are: what system is and how it has changed; how it has mediated knowledge; and how it has worked in the world."

The role that ""system"" has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge, from Galileo and Newton to our own ""computational universe.""

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Personal Subject:

Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642-Knowledge-Science.

Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642

Subject Term:

Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.

Knowledge, Theory of.

System theory.

Systems Theory