This course explores the development of technologies of representation and asks what we can learn either from the way they were used and experienced in earlier periods as well as how we experience and articulate our own experience of evolving media. While the course gives attention to the history of a range of media including electronic sound recording and film, it will focus attention on the development of technologies that that allow us to explore emerging ideas of cognition and cognitive science. Course reading and research will examine ideas surrounding the origin of writing and geometry and the development of practices associated with scroll, codex, and book. Work on the evolution of printing technologies will include study of related graphic technologies such as woodcuts, engraving, and etching. The final portion of the course will deal the emergence of photography and digital technologies.
This seminar examines technology and science through techniques and perspectives drawn from social and cultural studies. Drawing on a range of methodologies and perspectives in social and cultural studies, the seminar explores the nature of scientific and technological activity by looking at the interaction and conflict, between the abstractions associated with science and technology and its practice. After considering major perspectives offered by philosophy, sociology, and history, the seminar will focus on specific topics or problems at the center of a social approaches to science and technology. Bioengineering, medicine, warfare, digital technology, race and gender, environment, and space exploration will be among the topics addressed through a broad range of writing. Wherever possible, the seminar will give special attention to Georgia Tech as a particular site for the ongoing constitution of practices within science and technology.
This seminar examines technology and science through techniques and perspectives drawn from social and cultural studies. Drawing on a range of methodologies and perspectives in social and cultural studies, the seminar explores the nature of scientific and technological activity by looking at the interaction and conflict, between the abstractions associated with science and technology and its practice. After considering major perspectives offered by philosophy, sociology, and history, the seminar will focus on specific topics or problems at the center of a social approaches to science and technology. Bioengineering, medicine, warfare, digital technology, race and gender, environment, and space exploration will be among the topics addressed through a broad range of writing. Wherever possible, the seminar will give special attention to Georgia Tech as a particular site for the ongoing constitution of practices within science and technology.
This course explores the use of diagrams and metaphors in addressing problems of representation, translation and reconstruction across two different symbolic media: language and architecture. The texts chosen as departure points for our work -- Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses -- have provided both narrative and aesthetic foundations for western art for almost two thousand years. Throughout our work we will seek to capture aspects of their meaning by proposing architectural constructs: design concepts, diagrams, drawings or models.
• Spacial Contruction of Meaning 2
The McEver Seminar represents the clearest, most focused expression of Georgia Tech's dialogue between technology and the humanities to date, and it aspires to extend that conversation into learning opportunities and contexts beyond the walls of Georgia Tech. The seminars are comprised of approximately 20 students, half from IAC and half from the College of Engineering, and two professors, one from each college.
"Newton and Economics" lecture at the University of Sussex in July 2009
Seminar in Stockholm on "Linnaeus and the Siberian Expeditions" in May 2009
Prof.Kenneth Knoespel
McEver Professor of Engineering and the Liberal Arts
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Literature,
Communication and Culture,
686 Cherry St., Room 337
Atlanta, GA, 30332-0165
Ph: 404-385.2056
Fax: 404-894-1287
kenneth.knoespel@lcc.gatech.edu