Jean-François Lyotard, "La Condition postmoderne", 1979.
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Late 20th century historical discourse was dominated by a succession of ideas and theoretical frameworks.
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Late 19th and early 20th century scholarship was dominated not by big ideas, but by methodological refinement and disciplinary consolidation.
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Serious scholarship was concerned as much with organizing knowledge as it was with framing knowledge in an ideological construct.
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The life work of the first great American historian of science, George Sarton, was not an idea
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we are entering a new phase of scholarship that will be dominated not by ideas, but once again by organizing activities, both in terms of organizing knowledge and organizing ourselves and our work.
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I traffic much less in new theories than in new methods.
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Perhaps most telling is the excitement that now (or really, once again) surrounds the library.
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14 Apr 08
EdurevueFound History, 2008.03.13
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Growing up in the second half of the 20th century, we are prone to think about our world and our work in terms of ideologies. Late 20th century historical discourse was dominated by a succession of ideas and theoretical frameworks. This mirrored the broader cultural and political discourse in which our work was set. For most of the last 75 years of the 20th century, Socialism, Fascism, Existentialism, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Conservatism, and other ideologies vied with one another broadly in our politics and narrowly at our academic conferences.
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06 Apr 08
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Late 19th and early 20th century scholarship was dominated not by big ideas, but by methodological refinement and disciplinary consolidation.
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the 19th and early 20th century, by contrast, took activities like philology, lexicology, and especially bibliography very seriously. Serious scholarship was concerned as much with organizing knowledge as it was with framing knowledge in an ideological construct.
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I believe we are at a similar moment of change right now, that we are entering a new phase of scholarship that will be dominated not by ideas, but once again by organizing activities, both in terms of organizing knowledge and organizing ourselves and our work.
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The new technology of the Internet has shifted the work of a rapidly growing number of scholars away from thinking big thoughts to forging new tools, methods, materials, techniques, and modes or work which will enable us to harness the still unwieldy, but obviously game-changing, information technologies now sitting on our desktops and in our pockets.
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All of these things—collaborative encylcopedism, tool building, librarianship—fit uneasily into the standards of scholarship forged in the second half of the 20th century
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14 Mar 08
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Late 19th and early 20th century scholarship was dominated not by big ideas, but by methodological refinement and disciplinary consolidation.
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Serious scholarship was concerned as much with organizing knowledge as it was with framing knowledge in an ideological construct.
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“constructivism” (the idea, in Jan Golinski’s succinct definition, “that scientific knowledge is a human creation, made with available material and cultural resources, rather than simply the revelation of a natural order that is pre-given and independent of human action”
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I believe we are at a similar moment of change right now, that we are entering a new phase of scholarship that will be dominated not by ideas, but once again by organizing activities, both in terms of organizing knowledge and organizing ourselves and our work.
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The new technology of the Internet has shifted the work of a rapidly growing number of scholars away from thinking big thoughts to forging new tools, methods, materials, techniques, and modes or work
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The buzz amongst librarians these days dwarfs anything I have seen in my entire career amongst historians.
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In the days of George Sarton, a thorough bibliography was an achievement worthy of great respect, and an office closer to the reference desk in the library an occasion for great celebration (Sarton’s small suite in Study 189 of Harvard’s Widener Library was the epicenter of history of science in America for more than a quarter century). As we tumble deeper into the Internet age, I suspect it will be again.
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Tom Scheinfeldt, director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason U, and one of the people behind Zotero
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The image of the lonely author toiling in the archives was entrenched in the profession long before the ideologies of the twentieth century. The AHA’s annual reports and the methods manuals of the early twentieth century are filled with efforts to strike a balance between the artistry (and audiences) of the Bancrofts and Parkmans and the new “scientific” apparatus of academic scholarship. And while the historians were wrestling with those issues, or just getting on with writing narrow monographs, specialists in the libraries and archives, were taking over the other work historians once felt they needed to take on themselves (and doing it better).
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As a public and digital historian, I’d say I’m in the “non-theory” camp, and from my point of view, it seems like there are more and more of us “non-theory” people working in field.
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Add Sticky NoteWe may thus expect a thorough exteriorization of knowledge with respect to the “knower”, at whatever point he or she may occupy in the knowledge process. The old principle that the acquisition of knowledge is indissociable from the training (Blidung) of minds, or even of individuals, is becoming obsolete and will become ever more so.
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13 Mar 08
bfeliceinternet shifted work of scholars away from thinking big thoughts to forging new tools, methods, materials, techniques, and modes or work which will enable us to harness the still unwieldy, but obviously game-changing, information technologies
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Lisa SpiroTom Scheinfeldt links the availability of new tools and resources to a shift in attention away from ideology, towards methodology.
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