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Product Description Critiques of Knowing explores what happens to science and computing when we think of them as texts. Lynette Hunter elegantly weaves together vast areas of thought: rhetoric, politics, AI, computing, feminism, science studies, aesthetics and epistemology.Critiques of Knowing shows us that what we need is a radical shake-up of approaches to the arts if the critiques of science and computing are to come to any fruition. Review "Reading "Critiques of Knowing is like looking into a kaleidoscope, where bright fragments are set in mirrors and new and beautiful patterns come from. One of my special pleasures in reading her are the delicious asides; these are veru light very fast, Lynetter Hunter makes some devastating theoretical reflections, and the text races down the page."-Hilary Rose, author of "Love, Power and Knowledge"This erudite, elegantly written book engages provocatively with questions at the forefront of scholarship in the humanities at the end of the twentieth century. It has the rare virtue of connecting these questions, convincingly, to analogous issues in the cultural studies of science. Lynette Hunter develops an innovative conceptual apparatus that will offer new resources to scholars working in a widely disparate range of disciplines and subject matters. It is a fine, accessible text."-Lorraine Code, author or "Rhetorical Spaces About the Author Lynette Hunter is Professor of the History of Rhetoric at University of Leeds. She is the author of several books includingRhetorical Space, Outsider Notes: Feminist Approaches to Ideology, Modern Allegory and Fantasy andWriting/Reading, and Publishing