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ItemCultural Cosmologies of the Internet: Situating Digital Networked Technologies in Diverse Moral Universes(University of Illinois Chicago, 2019)In this panel we consider how social actors situate uses of technologies within systems of moral norms and values while at the same time compelling the creation of new ones. Popular discourse tends to present dualistic thinking of the positive and negative impacts of technologies. Scholars have engaged with the internet and digital media, emphasising emancipatory subcultures (Coleman 2014; Gehl 2016, 2018) or presenting a critical view of the constraining aspects of networked technologies (Fish & Follis 2019; Fuchs 2014; Lovink 2016). These approaches are complimented by scholarship that considers technological practices and how they are embedded in social and cultural cosmologies (Burrell 2012; Horst & Foster 2018; Miller et. al. 2016). We argue for a closer integration of these bodies of scholarship through an examination of the contentious moral economies operating in emergent social spaces. The panel interrogates the relationship that social, political and economic actors have between their own ideas about what is good, appropriate and right and the diversity of orientations towards trust in techno-bureaucratic systems. We draw attention to immaterial systems and consider the social relationships and individual and collective imaginations that shape the production and experience of networked technologies. Through the papers, we articulate the forms of negotiation, resistance and refusal that occur when diverse moral universes, techno-regulating systems, and the conditions in which people find themselves collide.
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ItemThe Practical Tradition of Dutch Newtonianism(Brill, 2017-06-15)Dutch natural philosophers played a crucial role in interpreting and disseminating Isaac Newton's ideas throughout Europe. The chapter discusses how their views of Newton related to older Dutch traditions, most notably the so-called Dutch Mathematics - practical mathematics taught at universities in the vernacular for aspiring surveyors and military engineers. Within this field, a new understanding of natural philosophy had emerged, into which Newtonian science could be easily integrated.
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ItemThe ‘Duytsche Mathematique’ and Leiden Family Networks, 1600–1620(Brill, 2019)This interdisciplinary volume uses four hundred years of Dutch history as a laboratory to investigate spatialized understandings of the history of knowledge.
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ItemAgricola gegen den Rest der Gelehrtenwelt? Technisches Wissen an frühneuzeitlichen Universitäten(GNT-Verlag, 2020)World heritage life's work: Aspects of industrial culture and industrial archaeology, of the history of science and technology: Festschrift for Helmuth Albrecht on the occasion of his 65th birthday / edited by Norman Pohl, Michael Farrenkopf and Friederike Hansell
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ItemNo Preview AvailableAcademic writings and the rituals of early modern universities(Taylor & Francis, 2016)There is a tendency to regard the early modern university as a transitional stage of the institutional form from its medieval origins to its manifestation in the modern research university. This tendency has a dual perspective – it can focus on how universities were still dominated by medieval ways of learning or it can look for traces of what later became the modern.1 However, not all changes that happened at universities between 1500 and 1800 can easily be interpreted either as attempts to overcome the medieval system of learning or as modernising instances. Instead, often changes were made in reaction to problems that had arisen within the system of early modern universities or in reaction to developments outside academia. Academic writings – disputation texts and academic orations – in particular were subject to changes induced by institutional developments. While disputations and orations remained distinct literary genres with specific rules of composition throughout the early modern university, their function within the university changed significantly. They had a specific role for ritual performances within the university, while they also functioned as scholarly texts in the outside world.2 These constraints determined what an academic text could or could not do.
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ItemDifferent Modes of Competition? Early Modern Universities and Their Rivalries(SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG, 2016-06)
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ItemEmpirische Wissenschaft als praktische Philosophie(Wilhelm Fink, 2014)
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ItemReception and discovery: the nature of Johann Wilhelm Ritter's invisible rays(ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2009-06)
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ItemDystopian Genesis: The Scientist's Role in Society, According to Jack Arnold(Project MUSE, 2010-03)