Critiques of Knowing: Situated Textualities in Science, Computing and The Arts - Softcover

Hunter, Lynette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415192579 ISBN 13: 9780415192576

Publisher: Routledge, 1999

Synopsis

Critiques of Knowing Explores what happens to science and computing when we think of them as texts. The book elegantly weaves together such vast areas of thought as: rhetoric, politics, AI, computing, feminism, science studies, aesthetics and epistemology.

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Review:

"Reading "Critiques of Knowing is like looking into a kaleidoscope, where bright fragments are set in mirrors and new and beautiful patterns come from. One of my special pleasures in reading her are the delicious asides; these are veru light very fast, Lynetter Hunter makes some devastating theoretical reflections, and the text races down the page
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-Hilary Rose, author of "Love, Power and Knowledge
"This erudite, elegantly written book engages provocatively with questions at the forefront of scholarship in the humanities at the end of the twentieth century. It has the rare virtue of connecting these questions, convincingly, to analogous issues in the cultural studies of science. Lynette Hunter develops an innovative conceptual apparatus that will offer new resources to scholars working in a widely disparate range of disciplines and subject matters. It is a fine, accessible text
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-Lorraine Code, author or "Rhetorical Spaces

Synopsis:

Exploring what happens to science and computing when we think of them as texts. author Lynette Hunter weaves together such vast areas of thought as: rhetoric, politics, AI, computing, feminism, science studies, aesthetics and epistemology. Hunter takes the recent work on "situated knowledge" and argues that since we cannot have knowledge without communication, we need to think long and hard about textual strategies used when we try to locate knowledge in or from a particular place. She argues that the feminist standpoint critique of science hasn't considered the textual implications for such an approach and suggests that the arts and humanities are just as far behind in terms of democratizing access and evaluation, as the sciences. The text argues that what we need is a radical shake-up of approaches to the arts if the critiques of science and computing are to come to any fruition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0415192579
• ISBN 13: 9780415192576
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256