Memory practices in the sciences / Geoffrey C. Bowker.
Memory practices in the sciences / Geoffrey C. Bowker.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2005.
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N501/391
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English
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xi, 261 p. : ill., maps, facsims. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Synchronization of synchrony in the archive : geology and the 1830s -- 2. The 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. The local knowledge of a globalizing ethnos.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2005.
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Massachusetts
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c2005.
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"In this lively and erudite look at the relation of our information infrastructures to our information. Geoffrey Bowker examines how, over the past two hundred years, information technology has converged with the nature and production of scientific knowledge. His story weaves a path between the social and political work of creating an explicit, ind...
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Memory practices in the sciences / Geoffrey C. Bowker.
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Inside technology.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [231]-253.
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N501/391
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74VKK3JROJjO
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0262025892 (hbk.)
9780262025898 (hbk.)
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501
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991021851569702626
