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Introduction: Le Vie Della Passione

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In this book, we will depart on a journey to better understand and explain how the nature and emergence of complex networks links with our social technologies. We will focus, in particular, on languages, knowledge, and networks. By doing so, insights from the fields of network science and media research are combined. As a first step, we look at the current state of this combinatory exploration within media research.

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    Cf. UNESCO’s Memory of the world register entry, which confirms the Korean volume Jikji as the world’s oldest movable metal type printing evidence. Available from http://bit.ly/23eB33D (retrieved 20 November 2011).

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    For an extended introduction to the topic, refer to Thomas Christensen’s River of ink (2014); in particular, see the chapter Gutenberg and the Koreans.

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    Foucault’s historiographical practices, in turn, have been influenced by his reading of Friedrich Nietzsche who noted on the historical method: ‘through which any previous “meaning” and “purpose” are necessarily obscured or even obliterated’ (Nietzsche, 1987: 77).

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Petzold, T. (2017). Introduction: Le Vie Della Passione . In: Global Knowledge Dynamics and Social Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41234-4_1

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