Towards a Digital Epistemology: Aesthetics and Modes of Thought in Early Modernity and the Present Age 303056424X, 9783030564247

This book explores the concept of digital epistemology. In this context, the digital will not be understood as merely so

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Towards a Digital Epistemology: Aesthetics and Modes of Thought in Early Modernity and the Present Age
 303056424X, 9783030564247

Table of contents :
Foreword
References
Preface and Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Digital Epistemology: An Introduction
1.1 Digital/Analog
1.2 Liu/Lindhé/O’Gorman
1.3 Epistemology and Early Modern Modes of Thought
1.3.1 The Emblem
1.3.2 The Cabinets of Curiosity
1.3.3 Epistemology Engines and Recursive Historiography
1.4 Media Archaeology
1.5 The Book
References
Chapter 2: Evoking McLuhan’s Juxtapositions in the Digital Age: Archaeology and the Mosaic
2.1 The Past and the Contemporary1
2.2 McLuhan, Media Archaeology and Historiography
2.3 Strategies and Juxtapositions
2.3.1 Salon Culture versus Social Media
2.3.2 The Principle of Pertinence and the Mosaic of McLuhan
2.3.3 Electronic Literature versus the Renaissance Emblem
2.4 Interface. Mosaic
2.5 Hegnhøj and Essvik. Materiality and Analog Nostalgia
References
Chapter 3: CCC versus WWW: Digital Epistemology and Literary Text
3.1 The Mechanical Hand
3.2 The Literary Text: Operation CCC
3.3 Postdigitality and Analog Nostalgia
3.4 Digital. Tactile. Cabinet
3.5 The Principle of Pertinence
3.6 Imri Sandström: Language and the Principle of Pertinence
3.7 Kunstkammer Poetics
3.8 Babbage. Again
References
Chapter 4: “Books Are Machines”: Materiality and Agency from the 1960s to the 2010s
4.1 Digitization as a Lens
4.2 Digital History and Threats
4.3 Without Us: UKON
4.4 Ubiquitous Viruses
4.5 The Number of the Beast
4.6 Torsten Ekbom 1965
4.7 Johannes Heldén 2010
4.8 On Digital Humanities
References
Chapter 5: Towards a Twenty-First-Century Pedagogy for the Humanities
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Two Cultures 2.03
5.2.1 Counter-culture
5.2.2 Correspondence
5.3 Digital Expressions?
5.3.1 Digital Practices6
5.3.2 Digital-Born Works
5.4 From Mode of Expression to Mode of Thought
5.5 Media Archaeology, Digital Epistemology and Pedagogical Challenges
5.6 Conclusions and Challenges
References
Index

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