{"product_id":"knowledge-worlds-9780231189835","title":"Knowledge Worlds","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKnowledge Worlds reconceives the university as a media complex through which knowledge is made, conveyed, and withheld. Reinhold Martin argues that the material infrastructures of the modern university reveal the ways in which knowledge is created and reproduced in different kinds of institutions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this remarkable book, Reinhold Martin completely redefines what architectural history can do. The modern university emerges here as a media complex made not only of brick and stone but also of acoustic tiles and lighting fixtures, electric wires and handheld bells, lecterns and seminar tables. In a narrative that spans from the late Enlightenment to the twentieth century, Martin demonstrates with painstaking precision how this machinery functioned to suppress some voices and amplify others. What the machinery of higher education ultimately produced, it turns out, were spirits and ghosts of various kinds—of liberalism, neoliberalism, humanism, and that thing called the ‘Western canon.’ We are still haunted by those ghosts today, and this astoundingly original book tells us how we got here. -- Zeynep Çelik Alexander, author of \u003ci\u003eKinaesthetic Knowing: Aesthetics, Epistemology, Modern Design\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this sweeping account of the university’s ivied halls, Martin lays bare the tangled underpinnings and conflicting ideals of higher education in America, across private and public, colleges and universities, and from liberal to neoliberal eras. -- Lisa Gitelman, author of \u003ci\u003ePaper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReinhold Martin’s \u003ci\u003eKnowledge Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e combines critical thinking with a rare sense for the entangledness of inconspicuous material things. By meticulously studying the genealogies of specific architectural sites, Martin teaches us to understand the worldliness of knowledge—a worldliness that consists of material infrastructures. As it weds infrastructure studies with media theory, this book not only takes architectural history to a new level but also discovers nothing less than the outline of a media philosophy that understands media as environments and vice versa. A milestone. -- Bernhard Siegert, author of \u003ci\u003eCultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCombining historical detail with conceptual clarity, \u003ci\u003eKnowledge Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the modern university became the most important technology of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by organizing material objects and humans toward common ends. In doing so, Martin has written the first media history of the university. -- Chad Wellmon, author of \u003ci\u003eOrganizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Knowledge and Technics\u003cbr\u003ePrologue, c. 1800\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Figures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Student Bodies and Corporate Persons\u003cbr\u003e2. Greek Lines: The Geometry of Thought\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Temporalities\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Bricks and Stones: Time-Based Media\u003cbr\u003e4. Sources: A Political Ecology of Cultivation\u003cbr\u003eInterlude, c. 1900\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Voices\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Diffuse Illumination: The Silence of the Universal\u003cbr\u003e6. The Dialectic of the University: His Master’s Voice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV. Symbols\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. Frontier as Symbolic Form\u003cbr\u003e8. Technopoesis: Human Capital and the Spirit of Research\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue, c. 2000\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400335401303,"sku":"9780231189835","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231189835.jpg?v=1730470422","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/knowledge-worlds-9780231189835","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}