Abstract
Artisanal textual practices are strategies to deal with the uncertainty of artisanal
processes and the whims of materials. Confronted with the precarious nature of
artisanal knowledge, variation had always been the most important strategy of
error management. Following the dissatisfaction with ways of writing down
knowledge, hiding the imperfection of the process of knowledge production and
in response to the limits of language in articulating skills, the codification of error
emerged as a new strategy in the seventeenth century, pointing to a new conception
of the epistemic value of failure and error in the early modern arts and sciences.
processes and the whims of materials. Confronted with the precarious nature of
artisanal knowledge, variation had always been the most important strategy of
error management. Following the dissatisfaction with ways of writing down
knowledge, hiding the imperfection of the process of knowledge production and
in response to the limits of language in articulating skills, the codification of error
emerged as a new strategy in the seventeenth century, pointing to a new conception
of the epistemic value of failure and error in the early modern arts and sciences.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Weak Knowledge |
| Subtitle of host publication | Forms, Functions, and Dynamics |
| Editors | Moritz Epple, Annette Imhausen, Falk Müller |
| Place of Publication | Frankfurt am Main |
| Publisher | Campus Verlag |
| Pages | 163-178 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783593440293 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783593509778 |
| Publication status | Published - 2020 |