Martin Knowledge Worlds

Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-54857-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martin, Reinhold

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Design: Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Öffentliche Gebäude, Gewerbliche Bauten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).