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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ronald E Day |
ISBN: | 9780809328482 0809328488 |
OCLC Number: | 181599792 |
Description: | x, 139 ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: Remembering "Information" -- European documentation: Paul Otler and Suzanne Brier -- Information theory, cybernetics, and the discourse of "man" -- Pierre Lévy and the "virtual" -- Heidegger and Benjamin: the metaphysics and fetish of information -- Conclusion: "information" and the role of critical theory. |
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"This book should be required reading for all library and information science students and practitioners... Day packs together a whole series of arguments that raise fundamental questions about the purpose and practice of information studies today." - Libraries and Culture "[A] beautifully thought-through attempt to develop a historiography of information. [Day] draws together a number of threads... to make the argument that 'information,' so frequently portrayed as a purely abstract commodity, is materially textured and temporally rich." - Geoffrey C. Bowker, author of Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences" Read more...
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