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System: The Shaping of Modern Knowledge

System: The Shaping of Modern Knowledge

Siskin, Clifford

Paperback

Series: Infrastructures

Sports GeneralGeneral ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0262534673
ISBN13: 9780262534673
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Sep 8 2017
Pages: 330
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The role that system has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge, from Galileo and Newton to our own computational universe.

A system can describe what we see (the solar system), operate a computer (Windows 10), or be made on a page (the fourteen engineered lines of a sonnet). In this book, Clifford Siskin shows that system is best understood as a genre--a form that works physically in the world to mediate our efforts to understand it. Indeed, many Enlightenment authors published works they called system to compete with the essay and the treatise. Drawing on the history of system from Galileo's message from the stars and Newton's system of the world to today's computational universe, Siskin illuminates the role that the genre of system has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge.

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