3. Bricks and Stones: Time-Based Media

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: Knowledge and Technics 1
5. Prologue, c. 1800 21
6. PART 1: FIGURES
7. 1. Student Bodies and Corporate Persons 29
8. 2. Greek Lines: The Geometry of Thought 52
9. PART 2: TEMPORALITIES
10. 3. Bricks and Stones: Time-Based Media 77
11. 4. Sources: A Political Ecology of Cultivation 104
12. Interlude, c. 1900 130
13. PART 3: VOICES
14. 5. Diffuse Illumination: The Silence of the Universal 139
15. 6. The Dialectic of the University: His Master’s Voice 170
16. PART 4: SYMBOLS
17. 7. Frontier as Symbolic Form 195
18. 8. Technopoesis: Human Capital and the Spirit of Research 223
19. Epilogue, c. 2000 250
20. Notes 257
21. Selected Bibliography 323
22. Index 351