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Auteur(s) : Keller, Vera (1978-....)
Titre(s) : The interlopers [Texte imprimé] : early Stuart projects and the undisciplining of knowledge / Vera Keller
Publication : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins university press, copyright 2023
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-360 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
"According to a standard, long-running account of the rise of science, the "scientific
revolution" brought about by genius figures like Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton was
a revolution in thought. It was the result of a disciplining of thought that opened
the mind to the order and patterns in nature. Much of the scholarly pushback against
this story focuses on expanding the cast of characters beyond the geniuses to include
artisans, craftsmen, medical practitioners, sailors, tradesmen and other non-elites
who contributed to the development of the scientific mindset. The author rejects the
emphasis on cognitive orderliness and discipline that the standard account and its
detractors share" ; "A reframing of how scientific knowledge was produced in the early
modern world. Many accounts of the scientific revolution portray it as a time when
scientists disciplined knowledge by first disciplining their own behavior. According
to these views, scientists such as Francis Bacon produced certain knowledge by pacifying
their emotions and concentrating on method. In The Interlopers, Vera Keller rejects
this emphasis on discipline and instead argues that what distinguished early modernity
was a navigation away from restraint and toward the violent blending of knowledge
from across society and around the globe. Keller follows early seventeenth-century
English "projectors" as they traversed the world, pursuing outrageous entrepreneurial
schemes along the way. These interlopers were developing a different culture of knowledge,
one that aimed to take advantage of the disorder created by the rise of science and
technological advances. They sought to deploy the first submarine in the Indian Ocean,
raise silkworms in Virginia, and establish the English slave trade. These projectors
developed a culture of extreme risk-taking, uniting global capitalism with martial
values of violent conquest. They saw the world as a riskscape of empty spaces, disposable
people, and unlimited resources. By analyzing the disasters-as well as a few successes-of
the interlopers she studies, Keller offers a new interpretation of the nature of early
modern knowledge itself. While many influential accounts of the period characterize
European modernity as a disciplining or civilizing process, The Interlopers argues
that early modernity instead entailed a great undisciplining that entangled capitalism,
colonialism, and science"
Sujet(s) : Sciences -- Grande-Bretagne -- 17e siècle
Technologie -- Grande-Bretagne -- 17e siècle
Théorie de la connaissance -- Grande-Bretagne -- 17e siècle
Impérialisme -- Sciences -- Grande-Bretagne
Indice(s) Dewey :
509.410 9032 (23e éd.) = Sciences naturelles et mathématiques - Îles britanniques - 1600-1699
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781421445922. - ISBN 1421445921 (rel.)
EAN 9781421445922
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47222880c
Notice n° :
FRBNF47222880
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Table des matières : Introduction ; The political economy of projects ; Cast of characters ; "Projectors
are commonly the best naturalists" : knowledge practices ; Statecraft : "swimming
between two waters" in global policy ; Transplanters of empire : forcing nature and
labor ; Active knowledge : a turn against the liberal arts ; Unlimited invention.