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Exploring what happens to science and computing when we think of them as texts. author Lynette Hunter weaves together such vast areas of thought as: rhetoric, politics, AI, computing, feminism, science studies, aesthetics and epistemology. Hunter takes the recent work on ""situated knowledge"" and argues that since we cannot have knowledge without communication, we need to think long and hard about textual strategies used when we try to locate knowledge in or from a particular place. She argues that the feminist standpoint critique of science hasn't considered the textual implications for such an approach and suggests that the arts and humanities are just as far behind in terms of democratizing access and evaluation, as the sciences. The text argues that what we need is a radical shake-up of approaches to the arts if the critiques of science and computing are to come to any fruition.

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Author:   Lynette Hunter
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.362kg
ISBN:  

9780415192576

ISBN 10:   0415192579
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   11 February 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. The Ethos of the Nation State: Idelology, Discourse and Standpoint 2. Rhetoric and Artificial Intellegence: Computing applications in the sciences, Computing applications in the arts. 3. AI and Representation: A Study of a rhetorical context for intellectual legitimacy 4. The Socialising of Context: Methodologies for Hypertext Topical reasoning in the history of rhetoric Topical reasoning in hypertexts 5. Feminist Critiques of Science: From Standpoint to Rhetorical Stance Recapitulation Bridgework 6. A Feminist Critique of the Rhetorical Stance o Contemporary Aesthetics: Alternative StandpointsFootnotesBibliography

Reviews

'This is a dazzling book; in scope, in depth, in the originality of its approach and in the crisp confidence of its style. Its place in the study of particular disciplines is clear, but in the broader picture, it is difficult to think of anyone engaged in intellectual work at the end of the twentieth century who would not be the better for reading it.' - Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 'a much needed lexicon for scholars to draw upon.' - C.Jan Swearingen, Texas A & M University

Reading Critiques of Knowing is like looking into a kaleidoscope, where bright fragments are set in mirrors and new and beautiful patterns come from. One of my special pleasures in reading her are the delicious asides; these are veru light very fast, Lynetter Hunter makes some devastating theoretical reflections, and the text races down the page<br>. <br>-Hilary Rose, author of Love, Power and Knowledge <br> This erudite, elegantly written book engages provocatively with questions at the forefront of scholarship in the humanities at the end of the twentieth century. It has the rare virtue of connecting these questions, convincingly, to analogous issues in the cultural studies of science. Lynette Hunter develops an innovative conceptual apparatus that will offer new resources to scholars working in a widely disparate range of disciplines and subject matters. It is a fine, accessible text<br>. <br>-Lorraine Code, author or Rhetorical Spaces <br>

Reading Critiques of Knowing is like looking into a kaleidoscope, where bright fragments are set in mirrors and new and beautiful patterns come from. One of my special pleasures in reading her are the delicious asides; these are veru light very fast, Lynetter Hunter makes some devastating theoretical reflections, and the text races down the page. -Hilary Rose, author of Love, Power and Knowledge This erudite, elegantly written book engages provocatively with questions at the forefront of scholarship in the humanities at the end of the twentieth century. It has the rare virtue of connecting these questions, convincingly, to analogous issues in the cultural studies of science. Lynette Hunter develops an innovative conceptual apparatus that will offer new resources to scholars working in a widely disparate range of disciplines and subject matters. It is a fine, accessible text. -Lorraine Code, author or Rhetorical Spaces

'This is a dazzling book; in scope, in depth, in the originality of its approach and in the crisp confidence of its style. Its place in the study of particular disciplines is clear, but in the broader picture, it is difficult to think of anyone engaged in intellectual work at the end of the twentieth century who would not be the better for reading it.' - Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 'a much needed lexicon for scholars to draw upon.' - C.Jan Swearingen, Texas A & M University

Author Information

Lynette Hunter is Professor of the History of Rhetoric at University of Leeds. She is the author of several books including Rhetorical Space, Outsider Notes: Feminist Approaches to Ideology, Modern Allegory and Fantasy and Writing/Reading, and Publishing

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