A History of the Modern Fact

Poovey, Mary

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“…Formalization is also common across bureaucratic systems, as academics know from the experience of reducing the concrete messiness of a particular seminar to some markings on a page titled "Final marks." While specifically engaged in producing law, then, courts also contribute to the more general process of bureaucratic inscription (see Poovey 1998, Ericson and Haggerty 1997, Curtis 2001) -'inscription' referring to the process by which events and states of affairs are first turned into ink markings on a page and are then homogenized and standardized by the imposition of a format that allows for tabulation, and for inter-individual and inter-group comparison by future paperpushers in the same or in other agencies.…”

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Authorizing the Production of Urban Moral Order: Appellate Courts and Their Knowledge Games

Valverde

2005

Law Soc Rev

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Using some appellate courts' reviews of projects to maintain moral order in the city as the main source of data, this article shows that an analysis of legal knowledge production that (1) is dynamic and (2) refuses to treat people and texts as totally different entities, one studied by social scientists and the other studied by lawyers, can tell us much about such familiar but seldom theorized legal maneuvers as judicial review and constitutional challenges. Choosing to analyze the dynamics of knowledge processes is inspired by Actor Network Theory (ANT), Bruno Latour's work in particular. This methodological choice is particularly appropriate because judicial review tends to avoid making judgments about the content of impugned laws or ordinances, focusing instead, as Latour does, on form and process. But insofar as legal processes in general privilege form and process to a greater or lesser degree, a more general argument is made about the appropriateness of using tools from ANT to study legal and quasi‐legal knowledge networks.

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Authorizing the Production of Urban Moral Order: Appellate Courts and Their Knowledge Games

Valverde

2005

Law Soc Rev

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“…At the same time, however, Islamic accounting makes explicit that which is only implicit in conventional accounting.The fractal form of mudarabah accounts and the fractal form of tawhid are of a unity with the techniques of knowledge of anthropology, conventional accounting, and critical accounting. In their recent rethinking of the status of accounting as a form of knowledge production, some accounting scholars and cultural critics have moved away from the position that accounting has rhetorical functions and, instead, put forward the idea that accounting is itself a form of rhetoric (Poovey 1998). I am arguing that it is a very specific form of rhetoric that occludes its own rhetoricity.…”

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Anthropological and accounting knowledge in Islamic banking and finance: rethinking critical accounts

Maurer

2002

Royal Anthropological Inst

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Accounting for accounting demands renewed attention to the knowledge practices of the accounting profession and anthropological analysis. Using data and theory from Islamic accountancy in Indonesia and the global network of Islamic financial engineers, this article challenges work on accounting’s rhetorical functions by attending to the inherent reflexivity of accounting practice and the practice of accounting for accounting. Such a move is necessary because critical accounting scholarship mirrors, and has been taken up by, Islamic accountancy debates around the form of accounting knowledge. The article explores the work that accounting literature shoulders in carving up putatively stable domains of the technical and rhetorical, and makes a case for a reappreciation of the techniques for creating anthropological knowledge in the light of new cultures of accounting.

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“…Because humans are social creatures, all theories are in some nontrivial sense culturally conditioned. We cannot avoid having our beliefs creep into the creation of our knowledge (Poovey, 1998). This is why we have such trouble objectively evaluating …”

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Our Varying Histories and Future Potential: Models and Maps in Science, the Humanities, and in Music Theory

Narmour

2011

Music Perception

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Part 1 briefly recounts the influence of social unrest and the explosion of knowledge in both psychology and the humanities circa . As the sciences rely on explicit top-down theories connected to bottom-up maps and models, and whereas the humanities build on bottom-up differences within malleable top-down "theories" (approaches, themes, theses, programs, methods, etc.), the changes in the sciences during this period contrasted sharply with the changes in the humanities. Part 2 discusses in detail how these two social transformations affected the histories of music theory and cognitive music theory. The former fractiously withdrew from its parent organization (AMS), whereas the latter was welcomed into SMPC. Inasmuch as both music theory and cognitive music theory rely on maps and models, Part 3 examines the metatheoretical importance of these terms for music cognition, music theory, and cognitive music theory. Part 4 speculates about the future-how music cognition, cognitive music theory, and music theory contribute to the structure of musical knowledge. The intellectual potential of this unique triadic collaboration is discussed: psychology provides a commanding empirical framework of the human mind, while music theory and cognitive music theory logically model moment-to-moment temporal emotions and the auditory intellections at the core of musical art. . © 2011 by t h e regents o f t h e university o f california all rights reserved. please direct all requests for permission to photo copy or reproduce article content through the university of california press's rights a n d permissions w e b s i t e , h t t p ://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintinfo.asp.doi: 10.1525/mp.2011.29.1.1 eugene narmour University of Pennsylvania part 1 briefly recounts the influence of social unrest and the explosion of knowledge in both psychology and the humanities circa . As the sciences rely on explicit top-down theories connected to bottom-up maps and models, and whereas the humanities build on bottom-up differences within malleable top-down "theories" (approaches, themes, theses, programs, methods, etc.), the changes in the sciences during this period contrasted sharply with the changes in the humanities. Part 2 discusses in detail how these two social transformations affected the histories of music theory and cognitive music theory. The former fractiously withdrew from its parent organization (AMS), whereas the latter was welcomed into SMPC. Inasmuch as both music theory and cognitive music theory rely on maps and models, Part 3 examines the metatheoretical importance of these terms for music cognition, music theory, and cognitive music theory. Part 4 speculates about the future-how music cognition, cognitive music theory, and music theory contribute to the structure of musical knowledge. The intellectual potential of this unique triadic collaboration is discussed: psychology provides a commanding empirical framework of the human mind, while music theory and cognitive music theory logically model moment-to-moment tempor...

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A History of the Modern Fact

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Authorizing the Production of Urban Moral Order: Appellate Courts and Their Knowledge Games

Authorizing the Production of Urban Moral Order: Appellate Courts and Their Knowledge Games

Anthropological and accounting knowledge in Islamic banking and finance: rethinking critical accounts

Our Varying Histories and Future Potential: Models and Maps in Science, the Humanities, and in Music Theory

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