Promiscuous Knowledge: Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History - Couverture rigide

Cmiel, Kenneth; Peters, John Durham

 
9780226611853: Promiscuous Knowledge: Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 022661185X ISBN 13 : 9780226611853
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2019

Synopsis

Sergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, once compared the perfect search engine to "the mind of God." As the modern face of promiscuous knowledge, however, Google's divine omniscience traffics in news, maps, weather, and porn indifferently. This book, begun by the late Kenneth Cmiel and completed by his close friend John Durham Peters, provides a genealogy of the information age from its early origins up to the reign of Google. It examines how we think about fact, image, and knowledge, centering on the different ways that claims of truth are complicated when they pass to a larger public. To explore these ideas, Cmiel and Peters focus on three main periods--the late nineteenth century, 1925 to 1945, and 1975 to 2000, with constant reference to the present. Cmiel's original text examines the growing gulf between politics and aesthetics in postmodern architecture, the distancing of images from everyday life in magical realist cinema, the waning support for national betterment through taxation, and the inability of a single presentational strategy to contain the social whole. Peters brings Cmiel's study into the present moment, providing the backstory to current controversies about the slipperiness of facts in a digital age. A hybrid work from two innovative thinkers, Promiscuous Knowledge enlightens our understanding of the internet and the profuse visual culture of our time.

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À propos de l?auteur

Kenneth Cmiel was professor of history and American studies at the University of Iowa and director of the Center for Human Rights at the university. He is the author of A Home of Another Kind: One Chicago Orphanage and the Tangle of Child Welfare, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and Democratic Eloquence: The Fight Over Popular Speech in Nineteenth-Century America.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
022661185X
ISBN 13 
9780226611853
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
336
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