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Behold the Lexicographer: "slave of science, the pioneer of literature" | Jargon of Eden

The emergence of lexicography as a formal practice and discipline in the mid-18th century helps us interpret two interrelated issues in modern epistemology: 1. the evolution of applied analysis and aesthetic modelling as modes of knowledge, and 2. the growing dependence of knowledge upon media and communication technologies.

Fishing for Further SuggestionsCultureNet faculty are always bending the spines of books and scrolling through online publications - new and old - that speak to our shared interest in the ways that technology gets around to shaping us and us technology. A few titles recently traded between CNET faculty include:Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, Steel (1997)Andrew Feenberg's Transforming Technology

 The "pages" of this blog aim to explore contemporary developments in knowledge technologies, specifically the various tools and methods emerging within the Digital Humanities to help quantify, assess and analyze information. There's currently an impressive amount research and experimentation within this field, much of it covering a wide variety of professional disciplines and areas of cultural production. The questions linking such work, however, are quite fundamental:

 

Further Excursions into The Flesh of Words...

Some summer-y summary comments:

It would seem interesting to discuss some of the political context around Mandelstam's work. I'm not too familiar with the poetics of the Acme group, but some of their poetics statements seem to recall the more classical inspirations behind high modernism, the modernism of Pound and Lewis, in other words.