The Politics of Knowledge Work in the Post-Industrial Culture: Understanding the Dissemination of Knowledge of the Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts

ISBN-13: 9783990435465 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 196 str.

Rene Stettler

Opis

Cultural work and knowledge are the central topics of this book and intersect with many of the concerns on how to involve the general public in scientific, technological and economic developments to address urgent changes often deemed to be of a highly scientific nature including climate change, sustainability, environment and development. "

Spis treści

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Note on Terminology
The Scope of this Book
I Introduction
The Fragmentation of the Humanities and Arts
The Ambiguity of Knowledge Work
Unsustainable Sociosphere
Actor-Network Theory
II Cultural Spaces of Knowledge and Cultural Knowledge Work
Building a Transalpine Railway Tunnel and Manufacturing a Public and Transient Cultural Space of Knowledge
Manufactured Landscapes Manufacturing a Two-Dimensional Cultural Space of Knowledge
Preliminary Taxonomy of Post-Industrial Cultural Knowledge Work (CKW)
Fairytale Performing a Cultural Space of Knowledge at Documenta 12, 2007
III Rethinking Post-Industrial Cultural Work and Cultural Spaces of Knowledge
The Recognition of Contingencies, Public Imaginations and (Self-)Reflexive Thinking in the Global Risk Society
Reflexivity vs. Reflection, Epistemic Actors and the Second Modernity of (Self-)Uncertainty
Post-Capitalist Cultural Work
Cultural Work and Biopolitical Production
IV Epistemology of Post-Industrial Cultural Work
Cultural Work and Second-Orderness
Ethics
Aesthetics
Pragmatics
Politics
Language
Reflexivity
Temporality
V Conclusions and Outlook
Bibliography
List of Illustrations and Sources
Index

O autorze

René Stettler, PhD, Direktor Schweizer Biennale. Dozent f Medientheorie u Medienphilosophie a.d. Hochschule f Design u Kunst in Luzern