Techknowledgies: New Imaginaries in the Humanities, Arts, and Technosciences
| PUBLISHER | Cambridge Scholars Publishing (03/01/2007) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Hardcover (Hardcover) |
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TechKnowledgies: New Imaginaries and Transmigrations in the Humanities, Arts, and TechnoSciences is a diverse collection of essays, a recently produced technology play by William Kennedy, art, and installations that represent, and at times resist, the ways science and technology are interacting with the arts and the humanities to produce new imaginaries and disciplinary transmigrations that gesture towards a university of tomorrow. As theorists' posit new futures and call for an end to historically grounded, or discipline-based, so-called silo approaches to knowledges, a de facto reorganization of disciplinary boundaries and a migratory spirit have spontaneously infused the humanities with new life. These transmigrations, instead of diffusing the disciplinary terrain, have strengthened and broadened existing fields. They are provoking re-mappings of intellectual topography, and, ironically, have brought about more rather than less integration. Activated by such massive cultural shifts as the turn from print to visual culture; the technological revolution and its virtual sublimes; the acceleration of scientific advances; the rise and incorporation of mass or popular culture and the possibilities of replication, the humanities are producing integrated knowledges, what we are calling new TechKnowledgies, that interface the humanities, the arts, the social and hard sciences with digital technologies and research emerging at the borders of all these fields.
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ISBN-13:
9781847181367
ISBN-10:
1847181368
Binding:
Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
340
Carton Quantity:
1
Country of Origin:
US
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BISAC Categories
Reference | Questions & Answers
Reference | Social Aspects
Reference | Popular Culture
Dewey Decimal:
001
Library of Congress Control Number:
2007532489
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TechKnowledgies: New Imaginaries and Transmigrations in the Humanities, Arts, and TechnoSciences is a diverse collection of essays, a recently produced technology play by William Kennedy, art, and installations that represent, and at times resist, the ways science and technology are interacting with the arts and the humanities to produce new imaginaries and disciplinary transmigrations that gesture towards a university of tomorrow. As theorists' posit new futures and call for an end to historically grounded, or discipline-based, so-called silo approaches to knowledges, a de facto reorganization of disciplinary boundaries and a migratory spirit have spontaneously infused the humanities with new life. These transmigrations, instead of diffusing the disciplinary terrain, have strengthened and broadened existing fields. They are provoking re-mappings of intellectual topography, and, ironically, have brought about more rather than less integration. Activated by such massive cultural shifts as the turn from print to visual culture; the technological revolution and its virtual sublimes; the acceleration of scientific advances; the rise and incorporation of mass or popular culture and the possibilities of replication, the humanities are producing integrated knowledges, what we are calling new TechKnowledgies, that interface the humanities, the arts, the social and hard sciences with digital technologies and research emerging at the borders of all these fields.
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Editor:
Valentis, Mary
Mary Valentis, Ph.D., is a lecturer in English at the State University of New York, Albany. Coauthor of Brave New You and Female Rage and editor of The American Sublime, she has published articles in New Woman Magazine and in scholarly journals and collections. Her classes, retreats, and workshops focus on women's issues, romantic love, trauma writing, and popular culture.
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