Editors darren tofts, annemarie jonson, and alessio cavallaro have gathered up 28 essays by as many contributors. The novelist irish murdoch, in a letter to the polymath raymond queneau written in 1947, noted that she was about to take a class discussing whether socrates was a utilitarian. An intellectual history, by darren tofts, an nemarie jonson, and alessio cavallaro 2002. Students and society in the 2020s three future histories of education. An intellectual history mit press book details series.
An intellectual history make sense of the tumult that has followed in the wake of the change the internet has wrought. Michel foucault in the social study of icts citeseerx. Prefiguring cyberculture explores what the editors call the continuous present tense. Cyberculture has a history, a deeply layered and nonteleological history, a history full of surprises both good and bad, a history replete with consequences for what it means to speak of the human in informatic or posthuman idioms. The transformative power of the copy heidelberg university. But this method tends to reproduce the platonism which beset the olderstyle history of ideas approach. Media critics and theorists, philosophers, and historians of science explore the antecedents of such aspects of contemporary technological culture as the internet, the world wide web, artificial.
Scholars working at the chair draw on many areas of the humanities and social sciences, including philology, history, philosophy, the sociology and anthropology of knowledge, as well as more specialized fields such as discourse analysis, semiotics, historical semantics, and the history of the book. Many of the voices raised in prefiguring cyberculture. Review of darren tofts annemarie jonson and alessio cavallaro prefiguring cyberculture an intellectual history. Anna akasoy is professor of islamic intellectual history at hunter. Three future histories of education and technology. This passionate, multilobed conviction is the generative organ of this wonderful book. Intellectual history refers to the history of ideas and thinkers. Several, such as mits bruce mazlish and evelyn fox keller, are historians by training or.
An intellectual history this article has no abstract find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. An intellectual history mit press tofts, darren, jonson, annemarie, cavallaro, alessio on. I recommend reading them, but after doing so myself, i am persuaded that whatever intellectual history is, and whatever the history of. Intellectual history as practiced by historians is parallel to the history of philosophy as done by philosophers, and is more akin to the history of ideas. Intellectual history so conceived is by nature an interdisciplinary pursuit. As for art history, the pejorative meaning of the copy still. It is important to keep in mind that these projects are not only advertised as democratic projects, they are just as often. Cyberculture has a history, a deeply layered and non teleological history, a history full of surprises both good and bad, a history replete with consequences for what it means to speak of the human in informatic or posthuman idioms.
Commenting in the mid1980s on two recent volumes dedicated to the. An intellectual history power publicationsmit press, 2003 and with lisa. Intellectual history archive 1, 2016 whatmore, state of intellectual history. That is the always unfinished time in which classifications of what may count as human and nonhuman morph within lived technologies that bear the stigmata of the signifying monster called information. With annemarie jonson and alessio cavallaro he edited prefiguring cyberculture. An intellectual historyoffers an intriguing, if somewhat conservative, set of answers to these questions. Anthropocene describes an era dominated by human activities on all. Throughout the 1990s, as first the internet and then the world w ide web hove into public view, scholars and pundits alike stood transfixed by the technosocial transformations under way. Topics include the revolt against victorianism and the old order, and the subsequent rise of pragmatism, progressivism, literary modernism, radical liberalism, political realism, dissent and protest, neo. An intellectual history, by darren tofts, annemarie jonson, and alessio cavallaro 2002.
Even today, many intellectual historians remainstubbornly or covertly internalist in their method. This history cannot be considered without the knowledge of the humans who created, discussed, wrote about, and in other ways were concerned with ideas. The term cyberfeminist arose simultaneously in 1991 for scholar sadie plant in england, and the australian feminist art group vns matrix. American intellectual history since 1865 syllabus pdf this advanced level discussion course examines major movements in american thought from the civil war through the present. Intellectual history by riccardo bavaj there is no single answer to the question. These ranged from uploaded worksheets through materials for working with.
Darren tofts 2014 transdisciplinary arts research unsw blogs. An intellectual history darren tofts, annemarie jonson, alessio cavaliaro the term cyberfeminist arose simultaneously in 1991 for scholar sadie plant in england, and the australian feminist art group vns matrix. In prefiguring cyberculture, media critics and theorists, philosophers, and historians of science explore the antecedents of such aspects of contemporary technological culture as the internet, the world wide web, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, virtual reality, and the cyborg. A collection of thirtytwo essays written by american, australian, canadian and european writers, it has a strong opening, a mixed midsection. Reading this book is an exercise in reconfiguring how we see how we are in this formation called. Most of those concerned with the interaction o f digital media.