Review: Knowledge Worlds: Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University

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Book Review| March 01 2023 Review: Knowledge Worlds: Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University Reinhold Martin Knowledge Worlds: Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University New York: Columbia University Press, 2021, 384 pp., 89 b/w illus. $35 (paper), ISBN 9780231189835 Sharon Haar Sharon Haar University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2023) 82 (1): 96–97. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.1.96 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Sharon Haar; Review: Knowledge Worlds: Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 March 2023; 82 (1): 96–97. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.1.96 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search Down a 2,000-foot-long passage in the Quincy Mine in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is a small classroom created by Michigan Technical University students, a water drainage path they enlarged in the 1970s to create an experimental mine for their studies and research. Today, the East Adit, a horizontal passage at level seven (of ninety), forms the central experience of the Quincy Mine tour, where a visitor can learn of the geology, labor, and technologies that intersected in the difficult task of copper extraction. As one walks past the classroom, one sees a chalkboard and desks, abandoned in disarray after the departure of the last class. But this novel pedagogical space has no place in Reinhold Martin’s Knowledge Worlds: Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University, where the author investigates the weblike structure that produces the modern university out of complex threads of knowledge. This book is the latest... You do not currently have access to this content.