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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Bowker, Geoffrey C. Memory practices in the sciences. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005 (OCoLC)664547029 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Geoffrey C Bowker |
ISBN: | 0262025892 9780262025898 9780262524896 0262524899 |
OCLC Number: | 60776866 |
Awards: | Winner of |
Description: | xi, 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Synchronization and synchrony in the archive : geology and the 1830s -- The empty archives : cybernetics and the 1960s -- Databasing the world : biodiversity and the 2000s -- The mnemonic deep : the importance of an unruly past -- The local knowledge of a globalizing ethnos. |
Series Title: | Inside technology. |
Responsibility: | Geoffrey C. Bowker. |
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Abstract:
The ways we hold knowledge about the past shapes how we tell stories about it. Bowker looks at the relation of our information structures to our information and maintains that over the past 200 years information technology has converged with the nature and production of scientific knowledge.
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