Knowledge worlds : media, materiality, and the making of the modern university /

"What do the technical practices, procedures, and systems that have shaped institutions of higher learning in the United States, from the Ivy League and women's colleges to historically black colleges and land-grant universities, teach us about the production and distribution of knowledge?...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Martin, Reinhold, 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York City : Columbia University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Education, Higher > Philosophy.
Enseignement supérieur > Philosophie.
ARCHITECTURE / Criticism.
EDUCATION / Philosophy & Social Aspects
Education, Higher > Philosophy
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Knowledge and Technics
  • Prologue, c. 1800
  • PART 1: FIGURES
  • 1. Student Bodies and Corporate Persons
  • 2. Greek Lines: The Geometry of Thought
  • PART 2: TEMPORALITIES
  • 3. Bricks and Stones: Time-Based Media
  • 4. Sources: A Political Ecology of Cultivation
  • Interlude, c. 1900
  • PART 3: VOICES
  • 5. Diffuse Illumination: The Silence of the Universal
  • 6. The Dialectic of the University: His Master's Voice
  • PART 4: SYMBOLS
  • 7. Frontier as Symbolic Form
  • 8. Technopoesis: Human Capital and the Spirit of Research
  • Epilogue, c. 2000
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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