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Individuation in the Light of Notions of Form and Information On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (2): 301.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Barry Allen [email protected] Gilbert Simondon , Individuation in the Light of Notions of Form and Information , trans. Taylor Adkins ( Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2020 ), 713 pp. Gilbert Simondon , On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects...
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Global Objects: Toward a Connected Art History
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (2): 202–204.
Published: 01 May 2024
...G. Thomas Tanselle [email protected] Edward S. Cooke Jr. , Global Objects: Toward a Connected Art History ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2022 ), 327 pp. Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 This thoughtful, learned, well-written, extensively...
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Exchanging Perspectives: The Transformation of Objects into Subjects in Amerindian Ontologies
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 21–42.
Published: 01 April 2019
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Do Scientific Objects Have a History?: Pasteur and Whitehead in a Bath of Lactic Acid
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 126–142.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Bruno Latour; Lydia Davis; Jeffrey M. Perl Latour in this essay criticizes and abandons the approach to science studies—in which the object of study is presumed to be inert and passively circulating amid networks of practices, institutions, authorities, and historical events — that he took...
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TEACHING ABOUT OBJECTS
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (1): 67–74.
Published: 01 January 2017
... Gilead , of a child baptizing kittens with creek water—the instructor raises questions about how materials convey holiness and influence viewers or worshippers. She prods history and literature students, both graduate and undergraduate, to take physical objects seriously as evidence, and she challenges...
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The Presence of Objects: Medieval Anti-Judaism in Modern Germany
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Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 January 2004
...Caroline Walker Bynum Duke University Press 2004 THE PRESENCE OF OBJECTS
Medieval Anti-Judaism in Modern Germany
Caroline Walker Bynum
On the southwest corner of a large brick Gothic church in the little town of
Sternberg in north Germany is a curious stone. Mortared...
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EXCHANGING PERSPECTIVES: The Transformation of Objects into Subjects in Amerindian Ontologies
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Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (3): 463–484.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Eduardo Viveiros de Castro Duke University Press 2004 Symposium: Talking Peace with Gods, Part 1
EXCHANGING PERSPECTIVES
The Transformation of Objects into Subjects
in Amerindian Ontologies
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
At the outset of his reply...
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Inheriting Rorty: Empirical Curiosity and Objectivity Creep in the Anthropocene
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 January 2023
... antifoundationalism and postepistemology. Taken together, the work of Bruno Latour, Isabelle Stengers, and Donna Haraway has been less about rebalancing the relative and the objective, and more about redrawing the checkerboard of knowledge into “in-disciplinary” styles of empirical philosophy. These styles rely...
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Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (3): 520–521.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Miguel Tamen Lorraine Daston, ed., Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science (New York: Zone Books, 2004), 250 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews
Loren Samons II, What’s Wrong with Democracy? From...
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CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTIONS: Self-Exemption in Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm
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Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (2): 273–285.
Published: 01 April 2004
...Kirk Williams Duke University Press 2004 CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTIONS
Self-Exemption in Lessing’s Minna von Barnhelm
Kirk Williams
Among Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s most conspicuous interventions in the newly
created discipline of philosophical aesthetics was his critique...
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From Matter to Material Culture
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (1): 62–75.
Published: 01 January 2024
... through analyses of a single object, the Louvain beguine cradle from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The essay begins by treating Bynum's research from the 1980s to the early 1990s as moving toward a “visual theology” and then charts her movement from an interest in matter...
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FUZZY STUDIES: A Symposium on the Consequence of Blur Part 1
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (3): 441–449.
Published: 01 August 2011
..., and fallibilist.” He defined the “new fuzziness” as “an attempt to blur just those distinctions between the objective and subjective and between fact and value which the critical conception of rationality has developed.” This introduction also examines W. V. Quine's essay “Speaking of Objects” (1957), which...
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THE HOUSE
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (2): 171–177.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Caroline Walker Bynum Caroline Walker Bynum has written extensively about medieval religious objects and about the background to medieval understandings of materiality in theology, natural philosophy, and science. Here she turns to a very different consideration of objects, asking how they reflect...
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Footprints: The Xenophilia of a European Medievalist
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (2): 291–311.
Published: 01 April 2018
... regions and to study objects as well as texts. This curiosity has led the author herself to draw comparisons between Indian culture, especially Hinduism, and European Christianity, thereby raising questions about what constitutes good comparative study. Interrogating the nature of comparison, especially...
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The Latest Forms of Book-Burning
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 271–277.
Published: 01 April 2019
... with a physical object. Such objects, furthermore, carry within them vast fields of historical information that are lost when we concern ourselves solely with the text and, indeed, can even lead to the loss of texts themselves. Despite the mass destruction that has already been carried out, it is not too late...
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THE CHIMERA OF RELATIVISM: A Tragicomedy
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 13–26.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Barbara Herrnstein Smith In this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Comparative Relativisim,” Smith argues that relativism is a chimera, half straw man, half red herring. Over the past century, she shows, objections to the supposed position so named have typically involved either...
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THE CLOUD OF KNOWING: Blurring the Difference with China
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (3): 450–532.
Published: 01 August 2011
... an object for knowledge; nothing can be an object of knowledge until the blur is resolved and clarity attained. Chinese tradition offers suggestive examples of the thought that blur, so far from being incompatible with knowledge, might be its condition of possibility and the explanation of its value...
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Introduction: A New Pocket of Intellectual Space
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (3): 385–392.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., the author discloses the recent emergence of an unexpected cultural practice: a hybrid of anthropology and philosophy that takes metaphysics, as distinct from ontology, as both its object and its method. The distinction between metaphysics and ontology is crucial to this new “intellectual space” because...
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Clean Slate or Palimpsest?: A Response to Bruce Schneier
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (3): 359–362.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Jeffrey M. Perl Abstract This conclusion to the five‐part Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics” responds to the essay “Reimagining Democracy” by Bruce Schneier that appears in the same issue. The response, written by the editor of CK , objects to calls, such as those issued by Schneier and John...
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Introduction: “If That’s Not Love, What Is It?”
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (3): 373–384.
Published: 01 August 2020
... be two lovers in this narrative, there may be three objects of love: the rabbi, his wife, and the Torah. In the story, Rav Rehumi is so ravished by Torah that he forgets his wife. Since the narrative does not predicate that he chose not to visit her but, rather, that he was swept away, the author...
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