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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History Geschiedenis (vorm) |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Day, Ronald E., 1959- Modern invention of information. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2001 (DLC) 00047033 (OCoLC)45136686 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ronald E Day |
ISBN: | 0585457506 9780585457505 0809328488 9780809328482 9780809385324 0809385325 1299454739 9781299454736 |
Language Note: | English. |
OCLC Number: | 52697285 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 139 pages) |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | 1. Introduction: Remembering "Information" -- 2. European Documentation: Paul Otlet and Suzanne Briet -- 3. Information Theory, Cybernetics, and the Discourse of "Man" -- 4. Pierre Levy and the "Virtual" -- 5. Heidegger and Benjamin: The Metaphysics and Fetish of Information -- 6. Conclusion: "Information" and the Role of Critical Theory. |
Responsibility: | Ronald E. Day. |
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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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