Infrastructures Of (Non-)Knowledge : Virtuality and Epistemic Transformations.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flugel, Kristin.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2026.

Summary:

Scientific knowledge, in all its aspects, is widely understood to be shaped by social and material infrastructures, as well as by the practices unfolding within these arrangements.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Editorial

Bibliography

Introduction

On Knowledge

1.

2.

3.

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From Memo to AI

1. Waxboard-The infrastructure of memory as non‐knowledge

2. The infrastructure of the book

3. The Internet as an empire and the ignorance of AI

On Practices of (Non‑)Knowledge

The (Non‑)Knowledge of Practice

1. The Knowledge of Practices

2. Reflective Enabling

3. The Emergence of the New in Socio‑Material and Socio‑Imaginary Constellations

4. Tentative Considerations on the Participation of Digital Technologies in Social Practices

5. Conclusion

›Bildungswissen‹ and its Transformation in a Historical Perspective

1. Introduction

2. The crisis and restructuring of German universities by the end of the 18th century

3. Concepts of a new knowledge culture in the context of the Prussian university reform

4. Infrastructures of knowledge: the seminar and the practices of studying

5. Hodegetic works

6. Conclusion

Continuities and Discontinuities of Practices and Logics of (Non‑)Knowledge

1. Introduction: Student practices as practices of knowledge

2. Theoretical framework: Cultures of knowledge and ›Bildungswissen‹

3. Case Study Part I: Student practices in a university course around 1900

4. Case Study Part II: Student practices in a university course around 2025

5. Conclusion: Continuities, discontinuities, and the idea of knowledge

6. Further research prospects

Primary Sources

Literature

List of Figures

The Ritual Infrastructure of Conversation

2. Some rules for small talk

3. Small talk is not basic politeness

4. Small talk involves showing, not telling

5. Genre goal and speaker goal

On Infrastructures of (Non‑)Knowledge.

Remains of the Disc, or Respinning the History of CD‑ROMs and GIF 0.0

1. A blind spot in media history

2. A very short account of the short history of the CD‑ROM

Latency (1983-1992)

Hype (1993-1997)

Decline (late 1990s to mid‑2010s)

3. A source criticism of CD‑ROMs as historical remains

Challenges and promises

GIF 0.0: A sketch of a case study

4. Resurfacing digital media history artifacts

Biliography

How to Know a Data Centre without Leaving your Cosmology at the Door?

2. What is »augmented reality«?

3. The assembling of an artificial augmented reality experience

3.1 The ethnographical material

3.2 Building process

3.3 Three setups

4. A walkthrough of the STS‐Hub 2025 augmented reality data centre experiences

4.1 Passage into the data centre

4.2 Installation

4.3 Aligning

4.4 Extinguishing gas

4.5 Batteries

4.6 Diesel Engine

4.7 Server racks

4.8 Heat and cooling

4.9 Passage out of the data centre

5. Discussion

7. Acknowledgements

A Virtual University, envisioned by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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6.

Text-Codex-Library

1. Libraries as Infrastructures of Knowledge

2. A Codex in Brunswick

3. From Brunswick to Helmstedt

4. Into the 20th Century

Manuscripts

Secondary literature

Understanding the System in its Entirety?

1. Texts from the pre‐printing era as epistemic objects in the Digital Humanities

2. Varieties of the virtualization of medieval literature

2.1 Modelling the material text: Facsimiles

2.2 Modelling between material and semiotic text: Markup

2.3 Models for distant reading: Plain text

3. Infrastructures for a distant reading of medieval texts.

3.1 Counting medieval texts

3.2 Exploration of the database

4. Conclusion: On the adequacy of virtual models

Wikipedia

2. kuwiki: living handbook

3. The Importance of Naming an Artwork

4. How to use Wikipedia ... for teaching

5. Two Cultures ... Authorships

6. Linking as an opportunity

7. and last but not least: the state of research

Links and online resources

An Outlook

The Virtual University

1. A playful experiment in practicing a virtual university

2. Organogrammatics

3. What do the members of virtual universities do, and how do they feel?

4. Virtual disciplines, or: how does one speak (truth) at virtual universities?

5. Virtual universities, why now?

List of Authors.

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ISBN:

9783839478462