Patterns and Principles in Rens Bod: Review of "World of Patterns" in the journal History of Humanities

donderdag 16 november 2023

Review of "World of Patterns" in the journal History of Humanities

David L. Marshall reviewed my book together with two other books in a substantial essay in History of Humanities.

"To mount a credible defense of the humanities in a hostile environment seems to involve maintaining that the humanities constitute a quite distinct form of knowing. The three books that I’m reviewing here—Eric Hayot’s Humanist Reason, Rens Bod’s World of Patterns, and Lorraine Daston’s Rules—do not argue for or assume the radical distinctness of the humanities. Nonetheless, they offer us important resources with which to articulate what the humanities do."

Read the full review essay here.

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31 december 2023: Ik spreek in "OVT" over het tragische einde van Taqi al-Din's observatorium

12 December 2023: Lecture at VUB Brussels: "What kind of knowledge is the pursuit of meaning?"

On 12 December at 16.15h, I will give a talk at the KIIP seminar entitled "What kind of knowledge is the pursuit of meaning?". In this talk I will present a longue durée exploration of meaning-making from a global perspective. I argue that a total of 185 distinct meaning-making practices can be discerned that can be grouped into 30 themes. I discuss a number of general patterns and principles that can be found in meaning-making practices across the world and will go into the question as to what kind of knowledge meaning-making actually is. For more info, see https://events.vub.be/kiip-seminar-rens-bod

14-15 November 2023: Online Workshop "Epistemic Transfer in the Humanities"

On 14 November I will give a brief presentation to introduce the workshop on Epistemic Transfer in the History of the Humanities. Why and how do humanities disciplines borrow knowledge from one another? Under what conditions has knowledge transfer been (un)successful in the past? And what light, if at all, do historical examples shed on current forms of (inter)disciplinarity? If you're interested in these questions, join our online workshop. For more info, see https://www.historyofhumanities.org/upcoming-meetings/workshop-epistemic-transfer/

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donderdag 16 november 2023

Review of "World of Patterns" in the journal History of Humanities

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