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System

The Shaping of Modern Knowledge

System( )
Author: Siskin, Clifford
Bowker, Geoffrey C.
Edwards, Paul N.
Series title:Infrastructures Ser.
ISBN:978-0-262-03531-6
Publication Date:Oct 2016
Publisher:MIT Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $32.00
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:330
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology
Philosophy / Epistemology
Science / System Theory
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.396 x 9.126 x 0.908 Inches
Book Weight:1.298 Pounds



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