The Ends of Knowledge

Rachael Scarborough King is Associate Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara, USA; she studies the literature and media of the long eighteenth century, with particular interests in newspapers, periodicals, and letters. She is the author of Writing to the World: Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres and editor of After Print: Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Cultures. She completed her Ph.D. in English and American Literature at New York University, and her B.A. in Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Seth Rudy is Associate Professor and Charles M. Glover Chair of English at Rhodes College, USA, where he studies the history of ideas and encyclopedic knowledge projects of the eighteenth century. He is the author of Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain: The Pursuit of Complete Knowledge (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). He completed his Ph.D. in English and American Literature at New York University, and his BFA in Film Production at the Tisch School of the Arts.

Preface

Introduction
Seth Rudy and Rachael Scarborough King

Part I: Unification
The Ends of Physics B. R. Brown
The Ends of Literary Studies
Aaron Hanlon
The Ends of Computing
Geoffrey C. Bowker
The Ends of Biology
B.N. Queenan
The Ends of Digital Humanities
Mark Algee-Hewitt

Part II: Access
The Ends of Law
Yochai Benkler
The Ends of Journalism
Jolene Almendarez
The Ends of Pedagogy
Sean Michael Morris
The Ends of the Liberal Arts
G. Gabrielle Starr

Part III: Utopia
The Ends of Artificial Intelligence
Hong Qu
The Ends of Gender Studies
Ula Lukszo Klein
The Ends of Activism
Ady Barkan
The Ends of Environmental Studies
Myanna Lahsen

Part IV: Concepts
The Ends of Performance Studies
Jessica Nakamura
The Ends of History
Marieke Hendriksen
The Ends of Black Studies
Kenneth W. Warren
The Ends of Cultural Studies
Mike Hill

Afterword
Clifford Siskin

List of Contributors
Index