Media and the Mind

Media and the Mind

媒体与思想：作为造纸机的艺术、科学和笔记本，1700-1830
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University of Chicago Press

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2023年02月01日

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9780226183862

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512

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英文

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A beautifully illustrated argument that reveals notebooks as extraordinary paper machines that transformed knowledge on the page and in the mind. Information is often characterized as facts that float effortlessly across time and space. But before the nineteenth century, information was seen as a process that included a set of skills enacted through media on a daily basis. How, why, and where were these mediated facts and skills learned? Concentrating on manuscripts created by students in Scotland between 1700 and 1830, Matthew Daniel Eddy argues that notebooks functioned as workshops where notekeepers learned to judge the accuracy, utility, and morality of the data they encountered. He shows that, in an age preoccupied with "enlightened" values, the skills and materials required to make and use notebooks were not simply aids to reason-they were part of reason itself. Covering a rich selection of material and visual media ranging from hand-stitched bindings to watercolor paintings, the book problematizes John Locke’s comparison of the mind to a blank piece of paper, the tabula rasa. Although one of the most recognizable metaphors of the British Enlightenment, scholars seldom consider why it was so successful for those who used it. Eddy makes a case for using the material culture of early modern manuscripts to expand the meaning of the metaphor in a way that offers a clearer understanding of the direct relationship that existed between thinking and notekeeping. Starting in the home, moving to schools, and then ending with universities, the book explores this argument by reconstructing the relationship between media and the mind from the bottom up.

Bibliographic Note Prologue Introduction 1. Recrafting Notebooks The Tabula Rasa and Media Interface Notebooks as Artifacts Notekeeping as Artificing Notekeepers as Artificers Thought as a Realtime Activity Science as a System Book Outline Part I: Inside the Tabula Rasa 2. Writing Writing as a Knowledge-Creating Tool The Place of Writing within Literacy Script and Observational Learning Grids and Verbal Pictures Copies and the Exercise of Memory 3. Codexing Paper Machines as Material Artifacts Paper as an Informatic Medium Quires and Knowledge Management Books and Customized Packaging 4. Annotating Revisibilia Made through Annotation Marginalia as Scribal Interface Paratexts and Editorial Training Ciphers and the Acquisition of Numeracy Part II: Around the Tabula Rasa 5. Categorizing Headings as Realtime Categories Headings as Mnemonic Labels Headings as Visual Cues Headings as Coordinates for Scanpaths and Sightlines 6. Drawing Description and Movement across a Page Learning to Draw a Picture Figures as Developmental Tools Scenes as Observational Training Observation and the Utility of Perception 7. Mapping Mapkeepers and Knowledge Systems on Paper Map-Mindedness and Embodied Experience Desk Maps as Crafted Constructions Field-Mindedness in the Classroom Field Maps and Visualized Data Maps as Mnemonic Devices Part III: Beyond the Tabula Rasa 8. Systemizing The Syllabus as a System and a Machine Lecture Notebooks and Knowledge Formation The Syllabus and Its Organizational Technologies Scroll Books and the Strategies of Realtime Learning Transcripts and the Extension of Memory Lines and the Media of the Mind 9. Diagramming Paths and Diagrammatic Knowledge Schemata as Useful Mnemonic Aids Shapes as Repurposed Perceptual Devices Pictograms and Visual Judgment Tables as Kinesthetic Diagrams Traces and Realtime Observation 10. Circulating Local and Global Networks Personal and Institutional Libraries Commodities within Knowledge Economies Courts of Law and Public Opinion Conclusion 11. Rethinking Manuscripts The Tabula Rasa and Manuscripts Manuscripts as Dynamic Artifacts Manuscript Skills as Artifice Manuscript Keepers as Artificers Acknowledgments Bibliography Abbreviations Primary Sources Manuscripts and Ephemera Printed Primary Sources Secondary Sources Index

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