Aesthetics of Universal Knowledge

1. Text and Context: Genius Loci (A Preface)
Pasquale Gagliardi

2. Introduction
Simon Schaffer

Part I. Visions: How Aesthetics and Museology Affect the Ways in Which Worlds can be Shown and Known

3. Re-visioning the World: Mapping the Lithosphere
Adam Lowe, Jerry Brotton

4. Architects of Knowledge
Pierre Chabard

5. Pictorialism (Prelude and Fugue)
Cheryce Xylander

6. The Unending Quantity of Objects: An Observation on Museums and Their Presentation Modes
Anke Heesen

Part II. Worlds: How the Performance of Cosmologies can Change the Way the Moral History of the World is Told and Understood

7. Cosmopragmatics and Petabytes
John Tresch

8. Gaia or Knowledge without Spheres
Bruno Latour

9. Mapping Dark Matter and the Venice Paradox
David Turnbull

Part III. Economies: How Different Models of Knowledge and Their Contents Matter to Politics and Society

10. The Web, Google, and Cosmograms
Steve Crossan

11. Rhetoric, Economics, and Nature
Deirdre N. McCloskey

12. Lodestar
Richard Powers

Nyckelord: Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology, Literature and Technology/Media, Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities, Popular Science in Humanities / Arts, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Quantum Field Theories, String Theory