Description
Panel on Unauthorised Reproduction and Knowledge Diffusion (Double Blind Peer Review)This panel focuses on cultural histories of unauthorized reproduction and translation in print culture and sheds new light on the role of intellectual intermediaries and informal circulation in preserving, disseminating, and altering certain ideas and texts. Panelist Margie Borschke will discuss how an ad hoc network of Anglo-American philosophers in the late 20th Century marshalled technologies of reproduction to record, reproduce and informally disseminate Saul Kripke’s unpublished lectures. Panelist Jeonghun Choi will examine how popular writers of 19th century Japan duplicated and domesticated the Western historical knowledge through unauthorized translations and adaptations of popular Euro-American history books, in their own works on universal history. Whereas the panelists share an interest in various ways a text can be copied and transmitted, they also intend to highlight unauthorized circulation as an integral part of the broader intellectual process in which intermediate agents build a discursive space, where original texts are not only preserved but critically examined. By bringing together these two genealogies of knowledge transmission and intellectual history into contact with one another, we hope to identify commonalities and differences that will contribute to deeper understanding of copying and distribution as key cultural practices in intellectual history.
| Period | 28 Jul 2021 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Muenster, GermanyShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |