Knowledge Worlds
Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University
1st Edition
Published on 22. March 2021
384 pages
978-0-231-54857-1 (ISBN)
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Knowledge 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.
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Reinhold Martin is professor of architecture in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, where he directs the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. He is the author of The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space (2003); Utopia's Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again (2010); and The Urban Apparatus: Mediapolitics and the City (2016).
Content
Preface
Introduction: Knowledge and Technics
Prologue, c. 1800
Part I. Figures
1. Student Bodies and Corporate Persons
2. Greek Lines: The Geometry of Thought
Part II. Temporalities
3. Bricks and Stones: Time-Based Media
4. Sources: A Political Ecology of Cultivation
Interlude, c. 1900
Part III. Voices
5. Diffuse Illumination: The Silence of the Universal
6. The Dialectic of the University: His Master's Voice
Part IV. Symbols
7. Frontier as Symbolic Form
8. Technopoesis: Human Capital and the Spirit of Research
Epilogue, c. 2000
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Introduction: Knowledge and Technics
Prologue, c. 1800
Part I. Figures
1. Student Bodies and Corporate Persons
2. Greek Lines: The Geometry of Thought
Part II. Temporalities
3. Bricks and Stones: Time-Based Media
4. Sources: A Political Ecology of Cultivation
Interlude, c. 1900
Part III. Voices
5. Diffuse Illumination: The Silence of the Universal
6. The Dialectic of the University: His Master's Voice
Part IV. Symbols
7. Frontier as Symbolic Form
8. Technopoesis: Human Capital and the Spirit of Research
Epilogue, c. 2000
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
