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Infrastructures of (Non-)Knowledge

Virtuality and Epistemic Transformations
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Virtuelle Lebenswelten, Volume 18
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 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. Considering ongoing, including AI-driven infrastructural transformations and digitization of epistemic cultures, the question of how infrastructures and practices shape what counts as (non-)knowledge arises anew. The interdisciplinary contributions to this volume offer a broad and nuanced insight into the interrelations between knowledge practices and their infrastructures, including libraries, Wikipedia, human bodies, digital corpora, and universities. Together, they foreground the complexity of knowledge, and invite readers to critically reconsider prevailing epistemic regimes.

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Edition
1/2026
Copyright Year
2026
ISBN-Print
978-3-8376-8244-1
ISBN-Online
978-3-8394-7846-2
Publisher
transcript, Bielefeld
Series
Virtuelle Lebenswelten
Volume
18
Language
English
Pages
343
Product Type
Edited Book

Table of contents

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  1. FrontmatterPages 1 - 6
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  2. EditorialPages 7 - 12
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  3. On KnowledgePages 15 - 39
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  4. From Memo to AIPages 41 - 58
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  5. The (Non‑)Knowledge of PracticePages 61 - 80
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  6. ›Bildungswissen‹ and its Transformation in a Historical PerspectivePages 81 - 96
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  7. Continuities and Discontinuities of Practices and Logics of (Non‑)KnowledgePages 97 - 125
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  8. The Ritual Infrastructure of ConversationPages 127 - 155
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  9. Remains of the Disc, or Respinning the History of CD‑ROMs and GIF 0.0Pages 159 - 181
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  10. How to Know a Data Centre without Leaving your Cosmology at the Door?Pages 183 - 223
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  11. A Virtual University, envisioned by Hans Magnus EnzensbergerPages 225 - 242
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  12. Text—Codex—LibraryPages 243 - 266
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  13. Understanding the System in its Entirety?Pages 267 - 291
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  14. WikipediaPages 293 - 315
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  15. The Virtual UniversityPages 319 - 337
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  16. List of AuthorsPages 339 - 342
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