Towards a Digital Epistemology : : Aesthetics and Modes of Thought in Early Modernity and the Present Age

• Author: Ingvarsson, Jonas.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (150 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This Open Access book explores the concept of digital epistemology. In this context, the digital will not be understood as merely something that is linked to specific tools and objects, but rather as different modes of thought. For example, the digital within the humanities is not just databases and big data, topic modelling and speculative visualizations; nor are the objects limited to computer games, other electronic works, or to literature and art that explicitly relate to computerization or other digital aspects. In what way do digital tools and expressions in the 1960s differ to the ubiquitous systems of our time? What kind of artistic effects does this generate? Is the present theoretical fascination for materiality an effect or a reaction to a digitization? Above all: how can early modern forms such as the cabinets of curiosity, emblem books and the archival principle of pertinence contribute to the analyses of contemporary digital forms?

Table of Contents

Intro -- Foreword -- The Digital Switch: From Causality to Relationships -- References -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Digital Epistemology: An Introduction -- 1.1 Digital/Analog -- 1.2 Liu/Lindhé/O'Gorman -- 1.3 Epistemology and Early Modern Modes of Thought -- 1.3.1 The Emblem -- 1.3.2 The Cabinets of Curiosity -- 1.3.3 Epistemology Engines and Recursive Historiography -- 1.4 Media Archaeology -- 1.5 The Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Evoking McLuhan's Juxtapositions in the Digital Age: Archaeology and the Mosaic

2.1 The Past and the Contemporary -- 2.2 McLuhan, Media Archaeology and Historiography -- 2.3 Strategies and Juxtapositions -- 2.3.1 Salon Culture versus Social Media -- 2.3.2 The Principle of Pertinence and the Mosaic of McLuhan -- 2.3.3 Electronic Literature versus the Renaissance Emblem -- 2.4 Interface. Mosaic -- 2.5 Hegnhøj and Essvik. Materiality and Analog Nostalgia -- References -- Chapter 3: CCC versus WWW: Digital Epistemology and Literary Text -- 3.1 The Mechanical Hand -- 3.2 The Literary Text: Operation CCC -- 3.3 Postdigitality and Analog Nostalgia -- 3.4 Digital. Tactile. Cabinet

3.5 The Principle of Pertinence -- 3.6 Imri Sandström: Language and the Principle of Pertinence -- 3.7 Kunstkammer Poetics -- 3.8 Babbage. Again -- References -- Chapter 4: "Books Are Machines": Materiality and Agency from the 1960s to the 2010s -- 4.1 Digitization as a Lens -- 4.2 Digital History and Threats -- 4.3 Without Us: UKON -- 4.4 Ubiquitous Viruses -- 4.5 The Number of the Beast -- 4.6 Torsten Ekbom 1965 -- 4.7 Johannes Heldén 2010 -- 4.8 On Digital Humanities -- References -- Chapter 5: Towards a Twenty-First-Century Pedagogy for the Humanities -- 5.1 Introduction

5.2 The Two Cultures 2.0 -- 5.2.1 Counter-culture -- 5.2.2 Correspondence -- 5.3 Digital Expressions? -- 5.3.1 Digital Practices -- 5.3.2 Digital-Born Works -- 5.4 From Mode of Expression to Mode of Thought -- 5.5 Media Archaeology, Digital Epistemology and Pedagogical Challenges -- 5.6 Conclusions and Challenges -- References -- Index