Issue 65 Knowledge Winter 2018
Table of Contents
Columns
Ingestion / The White Rabbit and His Colorful Tricks
Catherine KeyserBreakfast cereal, dietary purity, and race
Sentences / Before She Solidified
Brian DillonPossibly not dead at all
Inventory / Two Gardens in Two Books
Bennett Gilbert Early modern herbaria and the question of botanical representation
Leftovers / I Was Opened
Anonymous The beauty of what remained
Main
Rectangle after Rectangle
Amy Knight Powell How the picture frame was shaped
Hegel 2.0
Leif Weatherby The imaginary history of ternary computing
At the Sign of the Mortal and Pestle
Alyssa Pelish The persistence of mercantile emblems
Notes from the Attic
Mahan Moalemi Displaying the material history of the CIA
Knowledge
Introduction
The Power of Naming
Cecilia Sjöholm A technology for mastering the world
Telling the Future
Steven Connor Prophecy as performance
Two Moments from the History of Dream Illumination
Marina Warner Perchance to better understand Drinfel'd upper half space
Noble Unfaith and Perfect Knowledge
Amy HollywoodHadewijch and the ravishment of love
Encyclopedias before L'Encyclopédie
William N. West The circle of knowledge and its gaps
Giulio Camillo and the Theater of Knowledge
Lina Bolzoni A mind endowed with windows
The Deceptions of Utopia
Anthony Grafton Ruse and rationality in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis
The Beast in the Bestiary
D. Graham Burnett Charles Waterton’s “Nondescript”
What Does the Melancholic Know?
Brian DillonAgonizing attention
Paranoia, Science, and the Architectures of Delusion
Jamieson Webster Apocalypse and revelation
The Fullness of Philosophy
Sven-Olov Wallenstein Hegel’s devouring machine
Modeling Time
Daniel Rosenberg The ruler of history
Theologies of Information
Chris Wiley Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Ray Kurzweil, and the coming singularity
And
Postcard / Black Cab, Gray Matter
Bookmark / And Then There Were None
Kiosk / Fall 2017–Winter 2018
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