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Reading Needham Now (April 2019)

Nappi, Carla Suzan (Author)
Wark, McKenzie (Author)

Technology and Culture
Volume: 60
Issue: 2
Pages: 562-573

URI: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/726938

DOI: 10.1353/tech.2019.0036

ISSN: 0040-165X; 1097-3729

Publication Date: April 2019
Edition Details: Themed articles on Joseph Needhan's "Science and Civilization in China"
Language: English

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What possible futures can be opened up by creatively reading an encyclopedic text not as a repository for information and historical facts but along two other lines instead: as an archive of concepts and of generative narrative detritus? This essay will reencounter Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China (SCC) according to these two readings. Reading collaboratively, the authors proceed through the early, more general volumes of SCC. McKenzie Wark works with the main text, in connection with Needham's earlier writings, to explore conceptual tools he offered for understanding and living in our current moment. Carla Nappi reads the footnotes to think about voicing, context, and how we write the history of science. These contrasting approaches in a collaboratively written piece play with forms of writing and reading, taking Needham as an anchor and inspiration.

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Includes Series Articles

Article Chen, Buyun (April 2019) Needham, Matter, Form, and Us. Technology and Culture (pp. 574-582). unapi

Article Mei, Jianjun (April 2019) Some Reflections on Joseph Needham's Intellectual Heritage. Technology and Culture (pp. 594-603). unapi

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Article Kuijpers, Maikel H. G. (April 2019) Materials and Skills in the History of Knowledge: An Archaeological Perspective from the "Non-Asian" Field. Technology and Culture (pp. 604-615). unapi

Article Baichun; Miao (April 2019) Joseph Needham's Research on Chinese Machines in the Cross-Cultural History of Science and Technology. Technology and Culture (pp. 616-624). unapi

Article Tilley (April 2019) A Great (Scientific) Divergence: Synergies and Fault Lines in Global Histories of Science. Technology and Culture (pp. 583-593). unapi

Article Hsia; Schäfer (April 2019) Introduction to Themed articles on Joseph Needham's "Science and Civilization in China". Technology and Culture (pp. 554-561). unapi

Article Moon (April 2019) Editor's Note: Themed articles on Joseph Needham. Technology and Culture (pp. 553-553). unapi

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