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Scale Theory
A Nondisciplinary Inquiry
A pioneering call for a new understanding of scale across the humanities
Joshua DiCaglio takes us on a fascinating journey through six thought experiments that provide clarifying yet provocative definitions for scale and new ways of thinking about classic concepts ranging from unity to identity. The result is a powerful account of the implications and challenges of scale, attuned to the way scale transforms both reality and ourselves.
Scale Theory is an exceptionally astute and lucid remapping of the concept of scale. Working through a lively set of thought experiments, Joshua DiCaglio invents a scalar theory to move beyond conventional—often reductive and parochial—understandings of scale. From the not-so-simple conceptual and material status of objects to questions of process, relations, and consciousness to the scalar repercussions for subjects, experience, and the very practices of interpretation, DiCaglio delineates and performs a far-reaching scale theory for the predicaments of the present.
—Peter C. van Wyck, Concordia University, Montréal
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Recent Publications
Rhetoric of Science
Simulations of Moksha: Liberation, Mysticism and Transhumanism in Philip K. Dick’s Exegesis
Published in Science Fiction Studies
Microbes as Machines: Life, Control, and the Problem of Scale in the Emergence of Nanotechnology
Published in Configurations
A comprehensive look at the problem of stalled articles on Wikipedia and how to use this problem in the advanced writing classroom.
For more publications, please take a look at my Google Scholar or Texas A&M Faculty page. Feel free to reach out to me on X (@jdicaglio) or email if you have questions or need access to any of my publications (many of which are available in some version through Oak Trust).