Aesthetics of Universal Knowledge (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Preface: Text And Context: Genius Loci; Pasquale Gagliardi Introduction; Simon Schaffer Part I. Visions 1. Re-Visioning The World: Mapping The Lithosphere; Adam Lowe And Jerry Brotton 2. Architects Of Knowledge; Pierre Chabard 3. Pictorialism (Prelude & Fugue); Cheryce Von Xylander 4. The Unending Quantity Of Objects: An Observation On Museums And Their Presentation Modes; Anke Te Heesen Part II. Worlds 5. Cosmopragmatics And Petabytes; John Tresch 6. Gaia Without The Sphere; Bruno Latour 7. Mapping Dark Matter And The Venice Paradox; David Turnbull Part III. Economies 8. The Web, Google And Cosmograms; Steve Crossan 9. Rhetoric, Economics, And Nature; Deirdre N. Mccloskey 10. Lodestar; Richard Powers