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* Nathan Ensmenger The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise MIT Press
 
* Nathan Ensmenger The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise MIT Press
 
* Siva Vaidhyanathan The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System Basic Books
 
* Siva Vaidhyanathan The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System Basic Books
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* Ronald E. Day, [http://monoskop.org/images/9/92/Day_Ronald_E_Modern_Invention_of_Information_Discourse_History_and_Power.pdf ''The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power''], Southern Illinois University Press, 2001.
 
* Markus Krajewski, Peter Krapp Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929 The MIT Press
 
* Markus Krajewski, Peter Krapp Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929 The MIT Press
 
* Eric de Groller A Study of general categories applicable to classification and coding in documentation; Documentation and terminology of science; 1962
 
* Eric de Groller A Study of general categories applicable to classification and coding in documentation; Documentation and terminology of science; 1962

Revision as of 15:04, 5 January 2016

Cross-readings. Not a bibliography.

Paul Otlet

Re-reading Otlet

Fathers of the internet

Constructing a posthumous pre-history of contemporary networking technologies.

  • Christophe Lejeune Ce que l’annuaire fait à Internet
  • Paul Dourish, Genevieve Bell Divining a Digital Future
  • John Johnston The Allure of Machinic Life: Cybernetics, Artificial Life, and the New AI A Bradford Book
  • Charles van den heuvel Building society, constructing knowledge, weaving the web
  • Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, Ora Lassila The Semantic Web
  • Wright, Alex, Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age, Oxford University Press, 2014.

Classifying the world

  • ShinJoung Yeo, James R. Jacobs Diversity matters? Rethinking diversity in libraries
  • Thomas Hapke Wilhelm Ostwald's Combinatorics as a Link between In-formation and Form
  • Nancy Cartwright, Jordi Cat, Lola Fleck, Thomas E. Uebel Otto Neurath: Philosophy Between Science and Politics Cambridge University Press
  • John Brown, Paul Duguid The Social Life of Information Harvard Business Press
  • Nathan Ensmenger The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise MIT Press
  • Siva Vaidhyanathan The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System Basic Books
  • Ronald E. Day, The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power, Southern Illinois University Press, 2001.
  • Markus Krajewski, Peter Krapp Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929 The MIT Press
  • Eric de Groller A Study of general categories applicable to classification and coding in documentation; Documentation and terminology of science; 1962
  • Paul Otlet, L’afrique aux noirs, Bruxelles: Ferdinand Larcier, 1888.
  • Marlene Manoff, "Theories of the archive from across the disciplines," in portal: Libraries and the Academy, Vol. 4, No. 1 (2004), pp. 9–25.
  • Charles van den Heuvel, W. Boyd Rayward, Facing Interfaces: Paul Otlet's Visualizations of Data Integration. Journal of the American society for information science and technology (2011)

Don't be evil

Standing on the hands of Internet giants

  • Rene Koenig, Miriam Rasch Society of the Query (Reader)
  • William Miller Living With Google Routledge
  • Matthew Fuller, Andrew Goffey Evil Media MIT
  • Ray Kurzweil The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence Penguin
  • Lawrence Page, Sergey Brin The Anatomy of a Search Engine
  • Steve Levy In The Plex Simon & Schuster
  • Dan Schiller, ShinJoung Yeo Powered By Google: Widening Access and Tightening Corporate Control
  • ShinJoung Yeo Geopolitics of search: Google vs. China?
  • Invisible Committee Fuck Off Coogle
  • Dave Eggers The Circle Knopf
  • Ippolita Epistemology, ontology and others logoi in digital times
  • Matteo Pasquinelli Google’s PageRank Algorithm: A Diagram of the Cognitive Capitalism and the Rentier of the Common Intellect
  • Ken Auletta Googled: The end of the world as we know it
  • Joris van Hoboken Search Engine Freedom: On the Implications of the Right to Freedom of Expression for the Legal Governance of Web Search Engines Kluwer Law International
  • Siva Vaidhyanathan The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry) University of California Press
  • Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics The MIT Press

Embedded hierarchies

  • Otlet, Paul, Traité de documentation, Bruxelles, Mundaneum, Palais Mondial, 1934. (for alphabet hierarchy, see page 71)
  • Paul Otlet, L’afrique aux noirs, Bruxelles: Ferdinand Larcier, 1888.
  • Judy Wajcman, Feminism Confronts Technology, University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991.

Mons 2015

  • Delphine Masset, Manon Letouche Mons 2015, une culture locale et participative ?

Architectural visions

Writings on how Otlet's knowledge site was successively imagined and visualized on grand architectural scales.

  • Catherine Courtiau, "La cité internationale 1927-1931," in Transnational Associations, 5/1987: 255-266.
  • Giuliano Gresleri and Dario Matteoni. La Città Mondiale: Andersen, Hébrard, Otlet, Le Corbusier. Venezia: Marsilio, 1982.
  • Isabelle Rieusset-Lemarie, "P. Otlet's Mundaneum and the International Perspective in the History of Documentation and Information science," in Journal of the American Society for Information Science (1986-1998)48.4 (Apr 1997): 301-309.
  • Wouter Van Acker. "Architectural Metaphors of Knowledge: The Mundaneum Designs of Maurice Heymans, Paul Otlet, and Le Corbusier." Library Trends 61, no. 2 (2012): 371-396.
  • Van Acker, Wouter, Somsen, Geert, “A Tale of Two World Capitals – the Internationalisms of Pieter Eijkman and Paul Otlet”, in Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire/Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis, Vol. 90, nr.4, 2012.
  • Anthony Vidler, “The Space of History: Modern Museums from Patrick Geddes to Le Corbusier,” in The Architecture of the Museum: Symbolic Structures, Urban Contexts, ed. Michaela Giebelhausen (Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press, 2003).
  • Volker Welter. Biopolis Patrick Geddes and the City of Life. Cambridge, Mass: MIT, 2003.
  • Alfred Willis, “The Exoteric and Esoteric Functions of Le Corbusier’s Mundaneum,” Modulus/University of Virginia School of Architecture Review 12, no. 21 (1980).

Zeitgeist

It includes both century-old sources and more recent ones on the parallel or entangled movements around the Mundaneum time.

  • Julie Carlier, "Moving beyond Boundaries: An Entangled History of Feminism in Belgium, 1890–1914," Ph.D. dissertation, Universiteit Gent, 2010. (esp. 439-458.)
  • Bambi Ceuppens, Congo made in Flanders?: koloniale Vlaamse visies op "blank" en "zwart" in Belgisch Congo. [Gent]: Academia Press, 2004.
  • Sandi E. Cooper, Patriotic pacifism waging war on war in Europe, 1815-1914. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
  • Sylvie Fayet-Scribe, "Women Professionals in Documentation in France during the 1930s," Libraries & the Cultural Record Vol. 44, No. 2, Women Pioneers in the Information Sciences Part I, 1900-1950 (2009), pp. 201-219. (translated by Michael Buckland)
  • François Garas, Mes temples. Paris: Michalon, 1907.
  • Madeleine Herren, Hintertüren zur Macht: Internationalismus und modernisierungsorientierte Aussenpolitik in Belgien, der Schweiz und den USA 1865-1914. München: Oldenbourg, 2000.
  • Robert Hoozee and Mary Anne Stevens, Impressionism to Symbolism: The Belgian Avant-Garde 1880-1900, London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1994.
  • Elisée Reclus, Nouvelle géographie universelle; la terre et les hommes, Paris, Hachette et cie., 1876-94.
  • Alfred Willis, “The Exoteric and Esoteric Functions of Le Corbusier’s Mundaneum,” Modulus/University of Virginia School of Architecture Review 12, no. 21 (1980).

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