Intelligencing

that sad intelligencing tyrant

Hence with her, out o' door: A most intelligencing bawd!

Intelligencing for personal profit, albeit through the service of the crown, could call the agent's allegiance into question.

Playing off of Allen's account of intelligencing, I propose that another name for the kind of community that Marlowe stages is false brotherhood, especially since Barabas, Abigail, Ithamore, Bella Mira, and Pilia-Borza all end up engaging in the kinds of actions that Allen associates with intelligencing.

Unfortunately for Vindice, the object of his pandering is to be his own sister, Castiza (1.2.128), but the very fact that he is willing to play this game suggests a patent connection between morally dubious intelligencing and the business of acting.

For that reason Hartlib presents a faxcinating site of experiment: he straddles the international, intellectual 'intelligencing' characteristic of the republic of letters, and the more pragmatic intelligence gathering central to the formation of the English state. A large body of correspondence representative of this kind of political intelligencing within the Commonwealth and Protectorate are readily available within the English seventeenth-century StatePapers.

Considering intelligencing as a coherent group of practics furthering the advancement of learning, I will be suggesting that Ranelagh was much more than just another correspondent.

The crux is that 'intelligencing' does not need to include clandestine activities: intelligence in the early modern period is more about information that is in some way privileged, or special insight, rather than discrete items of secret knowledge.

As a necessary consequence of this pure spirituality and absolute independence of the angelic nature of all material aid or instrument for its operation, St. Thomas argues that the intellect of the angel, as regards whatever comes within the range of its natural knowledge, is always in the act of intelligencing, and can never be found in the state of potentiality.

To begin with, I shall address three of the different forms of sentience that can currently be found in the world: animal, human, and thing. Then, I will argue that these forms of intelligencing are beginning to have more in common as a result of the efflorescences of a suite of 'understated' technologies which enable evironments to become both extended and more active.

In this paper, I want to argue that the world consists of a series of 'intelligencings', to use a rather clumsy phrase, intelligencings which vary substantially in their reach and understanding and interaction, and which have geographies we can and should map – 'infovorous' geographies that can and do teach us how to be, and that therefore have an important ethical dimension.