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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Geoffrey C Bowker |
| ISBN: | 9780262524896 0262524899 0262025892 9780262025898 |
| OCLC Number: | 474716096 |
| Description: | xi, 261 s. : ill. |
| Contents: | Indhold: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: Synchronization and Synchrony in the Archive: Geology and the 1830s -- 2: Th Empty Archive: Cybernetics and the 1960s -- 3: Databasing the World: Biodiversity and the 2000s -- 4: The Mnemonic Deep: The Importance of an Unruly Past -- 5: Th Local Knowledge of a Globalizing Ethnos -- Conclusion. |
| Series Title: | Inside technology |
| Responsibility: | Geoffrey C. Bowker. |
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"A brilliant and subtle analysis that uncovers and explains how conventions of naming, classifying, recording, and remembering create and preserve human knowledge. This book is required reading for all who do science or want to understand it--a real tour de force."--John Leslie King, Dean and Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan Read more...
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