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The Ends of Knowledge Rachael Scarborough King

The Ends of Knowledge By Rachael Scarborough King

The Ends of Knowledge by Rachael Scarborough King


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The Ends of Knowledge: Outcomes and Endpoints Across the Arts and Sciences by Rachael Scarborough King

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.

The Ends of Knowledge Reviews

This book is organized around a central pun like all great works of scholarship. It queries the ends of knowledge, but here the end might mean telos, completion or cessation. The editors have assembled a genuinely productive and heterogeneous collection, but they wisely acknowledge that their volume is open-ended, unfinished and generative in the spirit of the Enlightenment encyclopedia project which provides its inspiration and warrant. -- Al Coppola, Associate Professor of English , John Jay College, CUNY, USA

About Rachael Scarborough King

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.

Table of Contents

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

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NGR9781350242289
9781350242289
1350242284
The Ends of Knowledge: Outcomes and Endpoints Across the Arts and Sciences by Rachael Scarborough King
New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2023-06-29
272
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