Aesthetics of Universal Knowledge

Simon Schaffer is Professor of History of Science at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of La fabrique des sciences modernes and the coeditor of The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences.John Tresch is Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon, among other works.Pasquale Gagliardi, former Professor of Sociology of Organizations at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, is now Secretary General of the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice, Italy. He is the author of Symbols & Artifacts. Views of the Corporate Landscape and Le imprese come culture, among other books.

• Preface: Text And Context: Genius Loci; Pasquale Gagliardi.- Introduction; Simon Schaffer.- Part I. Visions.- 1. Re-Visioning The World: Mapping The Lithosphere; Adam Lowe And Jerry Brotton.- 2. Architects Of Knowledge; Pierre Chabard.- 3. Pictorialism (Prelude & Fugue); Cheryce Von Xylander.- 4. The Unending Quantity Of Objects: An Observation On Museums And Their Presentation Modes; Anke Te Heesen.- Part II. Worlds.- 5. Cosmopragmatics And Petabytes; John Tresch.- 6. Gaia Without The Sphere; Bruno Latour.- 7. Mapping Dark Matter And The Venice Paradox; David Turnbull.- Part III. Economies.- 8. The Web, Google And Cosmograms; Steve Crossan.- 9. Rhetoric, Economics, And Nature; Deirdre N. Mccloskey.- 10. Lodestar; Richard Powers.