Description
Book SynopsisRegimes 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
—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
