The Ends of Knowledge

Outcomes and Endpoints Across the Arts and Sciences

Rachael Scarborough King, Seth Rudy (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-24229-6 (ISBN)

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Bringing together an exciting group of knowledge workers, scholars and activists from across fields, this book revisits a foundational question of the Enlightenment: what is “the last or furthest end of knowledge”? It is a book about why we do what we do, and how we might know when we are done.

In the reorganization of knowledge that characterized the Enlightenment, disciplines were conceived as having particular “ends,” both in terms of purposes and end-points. As we experience an ongoing shift to the knowledge economy of the Information Age, this collection asks whether we still conceptualize knowledge in this way. Does an individual discipline have both an inherent purpose and a natural endpoint? What do an experiment on a fruit fly, a reading of a poem, and the writing of a line of code have in common?

Focusing on areas as diverse as AI; biology; Black studies; literary studies; physics; political activism; and the concept of disciplinarity itself, contributors uncover a life after disciplinarity for subjects that face immediate threats to the structure if not the substance of their contributions. These essays – whether reflective, historical, eulogistic, or polemical – chart a vital and necessary course towards the reorganization of knowledge production as a whole.

Rachael Scarborough King is Associate Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara, USA; she studies the literature and media of the long eighteenth century, with particular interests in newspapers, periodicals, and letters. She is the author of Writing to the World: Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres and editor of After Print: Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Cultures. She completed her Ph.D. in English and American Literature at New York University, and her B.A. in Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Seth Rudy is Associate Professor and Charles M. Glover Chair of English at Rhodes College, USA, where he studies the history of ideas and encyclopedic knowledge projects of the eighteenth century. He is the author of Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain: The Pursuit of Complete Knowledge (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). He completed his Ph.D. in English and American Literature at New York University, and his BFA in Film Production at the Tisch School of the Arts.

Preface

Introduction
Seth Rudy and Rachael Scarborough King

Part I: Unification
The Ends of Physics B. R. Brown
The Ends of Literary Studies
Aaron Hanlon
The Ends of Computing
Geoffrey C. Bowker
The Ends of Biology
B.N. Queenan
The Ends of Digital Humanities
Mark Algee-Hewitt

Part II: Access
The Ends of Law
Yochai Benkler
The Ends of Journalism
Jolene Almendarez
The Ends of Pedagogy
Sean Michael Morris
The Ends of the Liberal Arts
G. Gabrielle Starr

Part III: Utopia
The Ends of Artificial Intelligence
Hong Qu
The Ends of Gender Studies
Ula Lukszo Klein
The Ends of Activism
Ady Barkan
The Ends of Environmental Studies
Myanna Lahsen

Part IV: Concepts
The Ends of Performance Studies
Jessica Nakamura
The Ends of History
Marieke Hendriksen
The Ends of Black Studies
Kenneth W. Warren
The Ends of Cultural Studies
Mike Hill

Afterword
Clifford Siskin

List of Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.06.2023
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
ISBN-10	1-350-24229-2 / 1350242292
ISBN-13	978-1-350-24229-6 / 9781350242296
Zustand	Neuware