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Textual Assemblages and Transmission: Unified Models for (Digital) Scholarly Editions and Text Digitisation
Scholarly editing and textual digitisation are typically seen as two distinct, though related, fields. Scholarly editing is replete with traditions and codified practices, while the digitisation of text-bearing material is a recent enterprise, governed more by practice than theory. From the perspective of scholarly editing, the mere digitisation of text is a world away from the intellectual engagement and rigour on which textual scholarship is founded. Recent developments have led to a more open-minded perspective. As scholarly editing has made increasing use of the digital medium, and textual digitisation begins to make use of scholarly editing tools and techniques, the more obvious distinctions dissolve. Such criteria as ‘critical engagement’ become insufficient grounds on which to base a clear distinction. However, this perspective is not without its risks either. It perpetuates the idea that a (digital) scholarly edition and a digitised text are interchangeable. This thesis argues that a real distinction can be drawn. It starts by considering scholarly editing and textual digitisation as textual transmissions. Starting from the ontological perspective of Deleuze and Guattari, it builds a framework capable for considering the processes behind scholarly editing and digitisation. In doing so, it uncovers a number of critical distinction. Scholarly editing creates a regime of representation that is self-consistent and self-validating. Textual digitisation does not. In the final chapters, this thesis uses the crowd-sourced Letters of 1916 project as a test-case for a new conceptualisation of a scholarly edition: one that is neither globally self-consistent nor self-validating, but which provides a conceptual model in which these absences might be mitigated against and the function of a scholarly edition fulfilled.
Dissertation
Artful Fiction and Adequate Discourse Irony and Social Theories of Science
This essay argues that recent reflexively oriented critiques of social studies of science, especially those of Steve Woolgar, present a problematic version of instrumental irony. Woolgar's own view is presented as instrumental and his antipathy to theorizing is opposed by arguing for the need to adopt a privileged position in order to carry out his recommended refusal of objectivist discourse.
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Social Relations and the Content of Early Modern Science
A sociological explanation is offered for certain features of the mathematical-mechanistic world view. Relations of commodity production and exchange are seen as providing an analogy of 'abstraction' for such a world view. The mediation between social relations and content of science is provided by commercial reckoners who contributed a new meaning to ancient mathematical concepts and thus paved the way for the notion that all sensually intuitable events are explicable in terms of the motion of qualitatively similar bodies. The works of early contributors to the mechanistic view are examined for instances of contribution from commercial experience to the modern notion of general magnitude and its relevance for physics and away from Euclidean mathematical concepts.
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Mathematics, Relativism and David Bloor
It is argued that David Bloor's strong program in the sociology of science (Knowledge and Social Imagery, London, 1976) is mistaken in its account of choice at the expense of the content of knowledge & belief, in its ambivalent attitude toward the notion of the social character of all thought, & in its conception of the function of interests in society. The example of Bloor's account (work cited above) of Simon Stevin's number concept (\"De Thiende\" [The Dime], Norton, Richard [Tr], in Struik, Dirk [Ed], Principal Works of Simon Stevin IIA, Amsterdam, 1958 [1608]) is used to display these inadequacies. It is concluded that an extreme tension exists between Bloor's naturalism & his notion of the context-situated character of all thought. AA
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CONTENTED COWS GIVE BETTER MILK: YOUR PEOPLE, YOUR PROFIT
The researchers' original intention was to examine a group of commercial employers who had already established firmly developed reputations as employers of choice, and to compare their financial performance over a long period of time with less distinguished competitors. The researchers selected six companies, (Hewlett-Packard, FedEx, General Electric, Southwest Airlines, Wal-Mart, and 3M) known as great places to work (the so-called Contented Cows), and six competitors, (Texas Instruments, Consolidated Freightways, General Motors, United Airlines, Sears, and Xerox) that had developed less stellar workplace reputations (the Common Cows). In the years since the researchers' original study, a few of the organizations on both their Contented Cow and Common Cow lists have experienced significant changes in their markets, their management, and their respective workplace reputations. The researchers believe that the quality of the workplace is driven not so much by issues of compensation, benefits, perks, and workplace amenities, but by the culture of leadership operating in the organization, from the executive ranks to first-line supervisors. Creating a great place to work involves more than good pay and benefits.
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