John Bender (1) (1945–)

Autore di The Culture of Diagram

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John Bender is Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies at Stanford University and a former Director of the Stanford Humanities Center. His books include Imagining the Penitentiary (winner of the 1987 Gottschalk Prize) and, with Michael Marrinan, Regimes of Description mostra altro (2005) and The Culture of Diagram (2010). mostra meno

Fonte dell'immagine: Stanford University

Opere di John Bender

Popolari Recenti

The Culture of Diagram (2010) 41 copie

Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century England (1987) 27 copie

The Ends of Rhetoric: History, Theory, Practice (1990) 25 copie

Chronotypes: The Construction of Time (1991) — Author, Editor — 20 copie

Ends of Enlightenment (2012) 7 copie

Regimes of Description: In the Archive of the Eighteenth Century (2005) 5 copie

Kultur des Diagramms (2014) 2 copie

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Opere correlate

Tom Jones (1749) — A cura di, alcune edizioni — 8,149 copie

Vision and Textuality (1995) — Collaboratore — 22 copie

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita: 1945
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: USA
Istruzione: Cornell University (PhD)
Princeton University (BA)
Attività lavorative: professor
Organizzazioni: Stanford University

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Regimes of description : in the archive of the… di John B. Bender

“At least three conditions seem to govern descriptions”:
1. “[T]hings do not describe themselves, meaning that descriptions are produced from particular perspectives or situations, and are based upon a finite and selective body of features—whether perceived by humans, measured by machines, or produced in the imagination….The corollary is that technical descriptions based on perceptions have no greater intrinsic claim to objectivity than the descriptions of a novelist or a painter.
2. “[D]escriptions do not replicate objects, but rather employ different media to transmit the salient characteristics of those objects across time and space.”
3. Descriptions are subject to “historical variability produced when the technology used to register descriptive features changes so dramatically that things previously invisible become newly visible.”… (altro)

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