System: The Shaping of Modern Knowledge

by Clifford Siskin

Book Overview

The role that "system" has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge, from Galileo and Newton to our own "computational universe."

A 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262534673
• ISBN13: 9780262534673
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher