{"product_id":"the-ends-of-knowledge-9781350242289","title":"The Ends of Knowledge","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBringing together an exciting group of knowledge workers, scholars, and activists from across fields, this book revisits a foundational question of the Enlightenment: what is \u003cem\u003ethe last or furthest end of knowledge\u003c\/em\u003e? It is a book about why we do what we do, and how we might know when we are done.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the reorganisation of knowledge that characterised the Enlightenment, disciplines were conceived as having particular \"ends,\" both in terms of purposes and end-points. As we experience an ongoing shift to the knowledge economy of the Information Age, this collection asks whether we still conceptualise knowledge in this way. Does an individual discipline have both an inherent purpose and a natural endpoint? What do an experiment on a fruit fly, a reading of a poem, and the writing of a line of code have in common?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFocusing on areas as diverse as AI; biology; Black studies; literary studies; physics; political activism; and the concept of disciplinarity itself, contributors uncover a life after disciplinarity for subjects that face immediate threats to the structure if not the substance of their contributions. These essays – whether reflective, historical, eulogistic, or polemical – chart a vital and necessary course towards the reorganisation of knowledge production as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47599419818220,"sku":"9781350242289","price":108.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/980a5d851222427353c244073ec41ebc.jpg?v=1778023293","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-ends-of-knowledge-9781350242289","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}