Architects Of Memory Information and Rhetoric In A Networked Archival Age 1st Edition by Nathan R Johnson ISBN 0817320601 978-0817320607

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ISBN 10: 0817320601

ISBN 13: 978-0817320607 

Author: Nathan R. Johnson

 Probes the development of information management after World War II and its consequences for public memory and human agency

We are now living in the richest age of public memory. From museums and memorials to the vast digital infrastructure of the internet, access to the past is only a click away. Even so, the methods and technologies created by scientists, espionage agencies, and information management coders and programmers have drastically delimited the ways that communities across the globe remember and forget our wealth of retrievable knowledge.

In Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age, Nathan R. Johnson charts turning points where concepts of memory became durable in new computational technologies and modern memory infrastructures took hold. He works through both familiar and esoteric memory technologies—from the card catalog to the book cart to Zatocoding and keyword indexing—as he delineates histories of librarianship and information science and provides a working vocabulary for understanding rhetoric’s role in contemporary memory practices.

This volume draws upon the twin concepts of memory infrastructure and mnemonic technê to illuminate the seemingly opaque wall of mundane algorithmic techniques that determine what is worth remembering and what should be forgotten. Each chapter highlights a conflict in the development of twentieth-century librarianship and its rapidly evolving competitor, the discipline of information science. As these two disciplines progressed, they contributed practical techniques and technologies for making sense of explosive scientific advancement in the wake of World War II. Taming postwar science became part and parcel of practices and information technologies that under gird uncountable modern communication systems, including search engines, algorithms, and databases for nearly every national clearinghouse of the twenty-first century.

Table of contents: 

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Building Memory’s Infrastructure

Chapter 2. A Universal Memory Machine

Intermezzo: Exorcising the Library Spirit: Library Labor as a Technê of Memory

Chapter 3. Hybrid Memory Labor

Intermezzo: Calvin Mooers’s Zatocodes

Chapter 4. Memory Conflicts

Intermezzo: Dorothy Crosland’s Book Truck

Chapter 5. Memory’s Coin

Chapter 6. Memory’s Infrastructure

Notes

References

Index

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