A new book edited by Kristin Flugel, Alexander Lang, Christina Lechtermann, Norbert Ricken, Tatjana Scheffler, Joachim Scholz, and Estrid Sørensen
Set against ongoing infrastructural transformations – including AI-driven ones – and the digitization of epistemic cultures, this volume, featuring 14 essays by 22 authors, examines how social and material infrastructures and the practices they sustain shape what counts as (non-)knowledge, bringing together interdisciplinary contributions that illuminate the entanglements of knowledge practices and infrastructures; the book emerged in the aftermath of the second International Annual Conference of the Collaborative Research Center 1567 »Virtual Lifeworlds«. This anthology has now been published by transcript as an open-access title.
Scientific knowledge, in all its aspects, is widely understood to be shaped by social and material infrastructures, as well as by the practices unfolding within these arrangements. Considering ongoing, including AI-driven infrastructural transformations and digitization of epistemic cultures, the question of how infrastructures and practices shape what counts as (non-)knowledge arises anew. The interdisciplinary contributions to this volume offer a broad and nuanced insight into the interrelations between knowledge practices and their infrastructures, including libraries, Wikipedia, human bodies, digital corpora, and universities. Together, they foreground the complexity of knowledge, and invite readers to critically reconsider prevailing epistemic regimes.
Kristin Flugel/Alexander Lang/Christina Lechtermann/Norbert Ricken/Tatjana Scheffler/Joachim Scholz/Estrid Sørensen (eds., 2026): Infrastructures of (Non-)Knowledge, Virtuality and Epistemic Transformations, Bielefeld: transcript.
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