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050	0	4	_aBD255 _b.S57 2016eb
082	0	4	_a003 _223
100	1		_aSiskin, Clifford, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aSystem : _bthe shaping of modern knowledge / _cClifford Siskin.
246	3		_aShaping of modern knowledge
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bThe MIT Press, _c[2016]
264		2	_a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : _bIEEE Xplore, _c[2016]
300			_a1 PDF (xii, 318 pages) : _billustrations.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aelectronic _2isbdmedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aInfrastructures series
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 249-299) and index.
506			_aRestricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
520			_aA system can describe what we see (the solar system), operate a computer (Windows 10), or be made on a page (the fourteen engineered lines of a sonnet). In this book, Clifford Siskin shows that system is best understood as a genre -- a form that works physically in the world to mediate our efforts to understand it. Indeed, many Enlightenment authors published works they called "system" to compete with the essay and the treatise. Drawing on the history of system from Galileo's "message from the stars" and Newton's "system of the world" to today's "computational universe," Siskin illuminates the role that the genre of system has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge. Previous engagements with systems have involved making them, using them, or imagining better ones. Siskin offers an innovative perspective by investigating system itself. He considers the past and present, moving from the "system of the world" to "a world full of systems." He traces the turn to system in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and describes this primary form of Enlightenment as a mediator of political, cultural, and social modernity -- pointing to the moment when people began to "blame the system" for working both too well ("you can't beat the system") and not well enough (it always seems to "break down"). Throughout, his touchstones are: what system is and how it has changed; how it has mediated knowledge; and how it has worked in the world.
530			_aAlso available in print.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web
588			_aDescription based on PDF viewed 03/08/2017.
600	1	0	_aGalilei, Galileo, _d1564-1642 _xKnowledge _xScience.
650		0	_aInterdisciplinary approach to knowledge.
650		0	_aKnowledge, Theory of.
650		0	_aSystem theory.
655		0	_aElectronic books.
710	2		_aIEEE Xplore (Online Service), _edistributor.
710	2		_aMIT Press, _epublisher.
830		0	_aInfrastructures series.
856	4	2	_3Abstract with links to resource _uhttp://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=7862437
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