René Stettler

The Politics of Knowledge Work in the Post-Industrial Culture (eBook, PDF)

Understanding the Dissemination of Knowledge of the Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts

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Produktbeschreibung

the book conducts in-depth inquiries into the practices, nature and theory of postindustrial cultural work and the humanities - and arts - based civic dialogues which cultural work promotes. Given the broad neglect of utopian thinking in the mainstream of critical social science, and in an attempt to sketch out a vision of an alternative future, the aim of the book is to outline an epistemology for cultural work as well as to reflect upon the prospects for educational cultural work practices and their function as a catalyst for civic dialogue and cultural change. A major focus of the book is on the epistemological, ecological, ethical and political dimensions of cultural work. This includes the prospects for a new form of communal workspace for knowledge and cultural learning. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Birkhäuser
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783990435472
• Artikelnr.: 53188855

Autorenporträt

René Stettler, PhD, lectures at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, School of Art and Design, Switzerland

Inhaltsangabe

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