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SUMMARY:Guesswork: System\, Science\, and the Advancement of Knowledge - C
 lifford Siskin (Henry W and Alfred A Berg Professor of English and America
 n Literature\, New York University\; Director\, The Re:Enlightenment Proje
 ct\; Leverhulme Visiting Professor at CRASSH)
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CONTACT:Ruth Rushworth
DESCRIPTION:The second of two Leverhulme Re:Enlightenment Lectures by Clif
 ford Siskin (Henry W and Alfred A Berg Professor of English and American L
 iterature\, New York University\; Director\, The Re:Enlightenment Project\
 ; Leverhulme Visiting Professor at CRASSH).\n\nThese lectures examine how 
 knowledge gets stuck and the strategies for restarting it. Ranging from pa
 st to present--and back--they link Galileo's and Bacon’s efforts to adva
 nce knowledge to efforts to scale up to new possibilities today. The first
  lecture highlights the “good fortune” (Bacon) of new tools\, by debut
 ing one. Like Galileo's spyglass\, "Tectonics" zooms in--in this case\, to
  clarify how our modern disciplines emerged from Enlightenment. The second
  lecture zooms out to reconsider the history of science in terms of Newton
  choosing "system" as his tool for guesswork.\n\nTogether\, these lectures
  explore the conditions of possibility for a centre such as CRASSH--a coll
 aborative effort to reconnect the arts\, social sciences and humanities. T
 he first condition is the division of knowledge into those categories\, wi
 th their second-order divisions into the narrow but deep disciplines of mo
 dernity. The second condition is that we think that there’s something to
  gain by this reconnect—that knowledge needs new forms of guesswork now.
  That thought—that we have a historically-specific opportunity for reorg
 anizing and advancing knowledge—is also central to the The Re:Enlightenm
 ent Project's effort to explain and transform our Enlightenment inheritanc
 e. These lectures are not an effort to study Re:Enlightenment but to enact
  it.\n\nVideo of the first lecture and more details: http://www.crassh.cam
 .ac.uk/events/2406/
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 
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