Knowledge Worlds : : Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University /

Knowledge Worlds : : Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University / / Reinhold Martin.

What do the technical practices, procedures, and systems that have shaped institutions of higher learning in the United States, from the Ivy League and women’s colleges to historically black colleges and land-grant universities, teach us about the production and distribution of knowledge? Addressing...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Martin, Reinhold,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 90 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Knowledge and Technics
  • Prologue, c. 1800
  • PART 1: FIGURES
  • 1. Student Bodies and Corporate Persons
  • 2. Greek Lines: The Geometry of Thought
  • PART 2: TEMPORALITIES
  • 3. Bricks and Stones: Time-Based Media
  • 4. Sources: A Political Ecology of Cultivation
  • Interlude, c. 1900
  • PART 3: VOICES
  • 5. Diffuse Illumination: The Silence of the Universal
  • 6. The Dialectic of the University: His Master’s Voice
  • PART 4: SYMBOLS
  • 7. Frontier as Symbolic Form
  • 8. Technopoesis: Human Capital and the Spirit of Research
  • Epilogue, c. 2000
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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