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Regimes of Description responds to the perception - however imprecise - that forms of knowledge in every sector of contemporary culture are being fundamentally reshaped by the digital revolution: music, speech, engineering diagrams, weather reports, works of visual art, even the words most of us write are now subject, as Lyotard points out in The Inhuman, to a logic of the bit, the elemental unit of electronic information. It is now possible to slice, graft, and splice this knowledge in ways never before imagined using technologies that treat vast bodies of information as a stream of data bits. Programs and technical algorithms specify the criteria for discriminating between the data stream of a Mozart string quartet and the CAT scan of a diseased organ. But are these machine instructions and design parameters descriptions, or merely mechanical filters? And if the latter, what constitutes a description of digitally encoded knowledge? As a group, the essays in this volume pose that question as a first attempt to write the archaeology of the nature and history of description in the digital age.



Table of Contents:
Introduction
 -John Bender and Michael Marrinan
Description: Fantasies of General Knowledge
Description by Omission: Nature Enlightened and Obscured
 -Lorraine Daston
Nature's Unruly Body: The Limits of Scientific Description
 -Londa Schiebinger
Mithridates in Paradise: Describing Languages in a Universalistic World
 -Jürgen Trabant
Between Political Arithmetic and Political Economy
 -Mary Poovey
Describing: Imagination and Knowing
Problems of Description in Art: Realism
 -Wolfgang Klein
Imagining Flowers: Perceptual Mimesis (Particularly Delphinium)
 -Elaine Scarry
Not Seeing the Laocoön: Lessing in the Archive of the Eighteenth Century
 -Wolfgang Ernst
Disparities between Part and Whole in the Description of Works of Art
 -Alex Potts
The Undescribed: Horizons of the Known
Between Mechanism and Romantic Naturphilosophie: Vitalizing Nature and Naturalizing Historical Discourse in the Late Enlightenment
 -Peter Hanns Reill
Transparency and Utopia: Constructing the Void from Pascal to Foucault
 -Anthony Vidler
Aesthetic Media: The Structure of Aesthetic Theory before Kant
 -David E. Wellbery


About the Author :
John Bender is Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Director of the Humanities Center, at Stanford University. Michael Marrinan is Professor of Art History at Stanford University.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780804747424
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Weight: 458 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0804747423
  • Publisher Date: 18 Jan 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Sub Title: In the Archive of the Eighteenth Century
  • Width: 152 mm


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