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* Warden Boyd Raywar, "Visions of Xanadu: Paul Otlet (1868-1944) and Hypertext." Journal of the American Society for Information Science (1986-1998) 45, no. 4 (05, 1994): 235-251.
 
* Warden Boyd Raywar, "Visions of Xanadu: Paul Otlet (1868-1944) and Hypertext." Journal of the American Society for Information Science (1986-1998) 45, no. 4 (05, 1994): 235-251.
 
* Warden Boyd Rayward (who translated and adapted), [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/c/ca/Warden_Boyd_Rayward_Mundaneum-_Archives_of_Knowledge.pdf ''Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge''], Urbana-Campaign, Ill. : Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010. Original: Charlotte Dubray et al., Mundaneum: Les Archives de la Connaissance, Bruxelles: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2008.
 
* Warden Boyd Rayward (who translated and adapted), [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/c/ca/Warden_Boyd_Rayward_Mundaneum-_Archives_of_Knowledge.pdf ''Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge''], Urbana-Campaign, Ill. : Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010. Original: Charlotte Dubray et al., Mundaneum: Les Archives de la Connaissance, Bruxelles: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2008.
* Wouter Van Acker,[http://staging01.muse.jhu.edu/journals/perspectives_on_science/v019/19.1.van-acker.html “Internationalist Utopias of Visual Education. The Graphic and Scenographic Transformation of the Universal Encyclopaedia in the Work of Paul Otlet, [[person::Patrick Geddes]], and [[person::Otto Neurath]]],” in ''Perspectives on Science'', Vol.19, nr.1, 2011, p. 32-80.
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* Wouter Van Acker,[http://staging01.muse.jhu.edu/journals/perspectives_on_science/v019/19.1.van-acker.html “Internationalist Utopias of Visual Education. The Graphic and Scenographic Transformation of the Universal Encyclopaedia in the Work of Paul Otlet, Patrick Geddes, and Otto Neurath” in ''Perspectives on Science'', Vol.19, nr.1, 2011, p. 32-80.
 
* Wouter Van Acker,  “Universalism as Utopia. A Historical Study of the Schemes and Schemas of Paul Otlet (1868-1944)”, Unpublished PhD Dissertation, University Press, Zelzate, 2011.
 
* Wouter Van Acker,  “Universalism as Utopia. A Historical Study of the Schemes and Schemas of Paul Otlet (1868-1944)”, Unpublished PhD Dissertation, University Press, Zelzate, 2011.
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* Theater Adhoc, [http://www.theateradhoc.com/items/pdf/performance-lecture.pdf The humor and tragedy of completeness], 2005
  
 
== Fathers of the internet ==
 
== Fathers of the internet ==
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'''Standing on the hands of Internet giants'''
 
'''Standing on the hands of Internet giants'''
  
* Rene Koenig, Miriam Rasch [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/7/76/Koenig_Rasch_Society_of_the_Query_Reader.pdf ''Society of the Query''] (Reader)
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* Rene Koenig, Miriam Rasch (eds), [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/7/76/Koenig_Rasch_Society_of_the_Query_Reader.pdf ''Society of the Query Reader: Reflections on Web Search''], Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2014.
* William Miller, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/3/34/William_Miller_Living_With_Google.pdf ''Living With Google''] Routledge
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* Matthew Fuller, Andrew Goffey [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/0/07/Fuller_Goffey-Evil_Media.pdf ''Evil Media''] MIT
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* Matthew Fuller, Andrew Goffey, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/0/07/Fuller_Goffey-Evil_Media.pdf ''Evil Media'']. Cambridge, Mass., United States: MIT Press, 2012.
* Ray Kurzweil [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/4/44/Kurzweil_The_Age_of_Spiritual_Machines.pdf ''The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence''] Penguin
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* Steve Levy [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/2/2b/Levy_Steve_In_The_Plex.pdf ''In The Plex'']. Simon & Schuster, 2011.
* Lawrence Page, Sergey Brin [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/4/4d/Page_Brin_The_Anatomy_of_a_Search_Engine.pdf ''The Anatomy of a Search Engine'']
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* Steve Levy [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/2/2b/Levy_Steve_In_The_Plex.pdf ''In The Plex'']  
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* Dan Schiller, ShinJoung Yeo[http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/9/96/Schiller_Yeo_Powered_By_Google.pdf ''Powered By Google: Widening Access and Tightening Corporate Control''] in: Red Art: New Utopias in Data Capitalism, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 20 Issue 1 (2015).
Simon & Schuster
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* Dan Schiller, ShinJoung Yeo [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/9/96/Schiller_Yeo_Powered_By_Google.pdf ''Powered By Google: Widening Access and Tightening Corporate Control'']  
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* Invisible Committee, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/7/7b/Fuckoffgoogleeng.pdf ''Fuck Off Google''], 2014.
* ShinJoung Yeo Geopolitics of search: Google vs. China?
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* Invisible Committee [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/7/7b/Fuckoffgoogleeng.pdf ''Fuck Off Google'']
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* Dave Eggers, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/c/cc/Dave_Eggers_The_Circle.pdf ''The Circle'']. Knopf, 2014.
* Dave Eggers [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/c/cc/Dave_Eggers_The_Circle.pdf ''The Circle''] Knopf
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* Ippolita Epistemology, ontology and others logoi in digital times
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* Matteo Pasquinelli, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/3/33/Pasquinelli_Googles_PageRank_Algorithm.pdf ''Google’s PageRank Algorithm: A Diagram of the Cognitive Capitalism and the Rentier of the Common Intellect]''. In: Konrad Becker, Felix Stalder (eds), Deep Search, London: Transaction Publishers: 2009.
* Matteo Pasquinelli [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/3/33/Pasquinelli_Googles_PageRank_Algorithm.pdf ''Google’s PageRank Algorithm: A Diagram of the Cognitive Capitalism and the Rentier of the Common Intellect]''  
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* Ken Auletta [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/6/65/Ken_Auletta-_Googled_The_End_of_the_World_As_We.pdf ''Googled: The end of the world as we know it'']
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* Joris van Hoboken, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/c/ca/Joris_van_Hoboken_Search_Engine_Freedom-_On_the_Implications_of_the_Right_to_Freedom_of_Expression_for_the_Legal_Governance_of_Web_Search_Engines.pdf ''Search Engine Freedom: On the Implications of the Right to Freedom of Expression for the Legal Governance of Web Search Engines'']. Kluwer Law International, 2012.
* Joris van Hoboken [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/c/ca/Joris_van_Hoboken_Search_Engine_Freedom-_On_the_Implications_of_the_Right_to_Freedom_of_Expression_for_the_Legal_Governance_of_Web_Search_Engines.pdf ''Search Engine Freedom: On the Implications of the Right to Freedom of Expression for the Legal Governance of Web Search Engines''] Kluwer Law International
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* Siva Vaidhyanathan [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/b/b8/Vaidhyanathan_The_Googlization_of_Everythin.pdf ''The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry)''] University of California Press
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* Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/5/54/Wendy_Hui_Kyong_Chun_Control_and_Freedom.pdf ''Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics'']. The MIT Press, 2008.
* Wendy Hui Kyong Chun [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/5/54/Wendy_Hui_Kyong_Chun_Control_and_Freedom.pdf ''Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics''] The MIT Press
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* Siva Vaidhyanathan[http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/b/b8/Vaidhyanathan_The_Googlization_of_Everythin.pdf ''The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry)'']. University of California Press. 2011.
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* William Miller, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/3/34/William_Miller_Living_With_Google.pdf ''Living With Google'']. In: Journal of Library Administration Volume 47, Issue 1-2, 2008.
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* Lawrence Page, Sergey Brin [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/4/4d/Page_Brin_The_Anatomy_of_a_Search_Engine.pdf ''The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine'']. Computer Networks, vol. 30 (1998), pp. 107-117.
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* Ken Auletta [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/6/65/Ken_Auletta-_Googled_The_End_of_the_World_As_We.pdf ''Googled: The end of the world as we know it'']. Penguin Press, 2009.
  
 
== Embedded hierarchies ==
 
== Embedded hierarchies ==
  
 
* [[wikipedia:Paul Otlet|Otlet, Paul]], [http://archive.org/details/OtletTraitDocumentationUgent ''Traité de documentation''], Bruxelles, Mundaneum, Palais Mondial, 1934. (for alphabet hierarchy, see page 71)
 
* [[wikipedia:Paul Otlet|Otlet, Paul]], [http://archive.org/details/OtletTraitDocumentationUgent ''Traité de documentation''], Bruxelles, Mundaneum, Palais Mondial, 1934. (for alphabet hierarchy, see page 71)
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* Paul Otlet, [http://efele.net/ebooks/livres/000399/ ''L’afrique aux noirs''], Bruxelles: Ferdinand Larcier, 1888.
 
* Paul Otlet, [http://efele.net/ebooks/livres/000399/ ''L’afrique aux noirs''], Bruxelles: Ferdinand Larcier, 1888.
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* Judy Wajcman, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/a/a3/Judy_Wajcman_Feminism_Confronts_Technology.pdf ''Feminism Confronts Technology'',] University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991.
 
* Judy Wajcman, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/a/a3/Judy_Wajcman_Feminism_Confronts_Technology.pdf ''Feminism Confronts Technology'',] University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991.
  
== Mons 2015 ==
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* Judge, Anthony, [http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs/otlethyp.php “Union of International Associations – Virtual Organization – Paul Otlet's 100-year Hypertext Conundrum?”], 2001.
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* Ducheyne, Steffen, “Paul Otlet's Theory of Knowledge and Linguistic Objectivism”, in ''Knowledge Organization'', no 32, 2005, pp. 110–116.
  
* Delphine Masset, Manon Letouche Mons 2015, une culture locale et participative ?
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* Popova, Maria, [http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/06/09/paul-otlet-alex-wright/ “The Birth of the Information Age: How Paul Otlet’s Vision for Cataloging and Connecting Humanity Shaped Our World”], ''Brain Pickings'', 2014.
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* Heuvel, Charles van den,  “Building Society, Constructing Knowledge, Weaving the Web”. in ''European Modernism and the Information Society – Informing the Present, Understanding the Past'', Aldershot, 2008, pp. 127–153.
  
 
== Architectural visions ==  
 
== Architectural visions ==  
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* Wouter Van Acker. [http://www.abd-bvd.be/cah/papers/2012-2_Van_Acker.pdf ''"Hubris or utopia? Megalomania and imagination in the work of Paul Otlet,"''] in Cahiers de la documentation – Bladen voor documentatie – 2012/2, 58-66.
 
* Wouter Van Acker. [http://www.abd-bvd.be/cah/papers/2012-2_Van_Acker.pdf ''"Hubris or utopia? Megalomania and imagination in the work of Paul Otlet,"''] in Cahiers de la documentation – Bladen voor documentatie – 2012/2, 58-66.
  
* Wouter Van Acker. "Architectural Metaphors of Knowledge: The Mundaneum Designs of [[person::Maurice Heymans]], Paul Otlet, and Le Corbusier." Library Trends 61, no. 2 (2012): 371-396.
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* 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.
 
* 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.
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'''It includes both century-old sources and more recent ones on the parallel or entangled movements around the Mundaneum time.'''  
 
'''It includes both century-old sources and more recent ones on the parallel or entangled movements around the Mundaneum time.'''  
  
* [[person::Hendrik Christian Andersen]] and [[person::Ernest M. Hébrard]]. [http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/andersen1913 ''Création d'un Centre mondial de communication'']. Paris, 1913.
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* Hendrik Christian Andersen and Ernest M. Hébrard. [http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/andersen1913 ''Création d'un Centre mondial de communication'']. Paris, 1913.
  
 
* Julie Carlier, "Moving beyond Boundaries: An Entangled History of Feminism in Belgium, 1890–1914," Ph.D. dissertation, Universiteit Gent, 2010. (esp. 439-458.)
 
* Julie Carlier, "Moving beyond Boundaries: An Entangled History of Feminism in Belgium, 1890–1914," Ph.D. dissertation, Universiteit Gent, 2010. (esp. 439-458.)
  
* [[person::Bambi Ceuppens]], Congo made in Flanders?: koloniale Vlaamse visies op "blank" en "zwart" in Belgisch Congo. [Gent]: Academia Press, 2004.
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* Bambi Ceuppens, Congo made in Flanders?: koloniale Vlaamse visies op "blank" en "zwart" in Belgisch Congo. [Gent]: Academia Press, 2004.
  
 
* Conseil International des Femmes (International Council of Women), [https://archive.org/details/rapportprsent00offi ''Office Central de Documentation pour les Questions Concernant la Femme. Rapport.''] Bruxelles : Office Central de Documentation Féminine, 1909.
 
* Conseil International des Femmes (International Council of Women), [https://archive.org/details/rapportprsent00offi ''Office Central de Documentation pour les Questions Concernant la Femme. Rapport.''] Bruxelles : Office Central de Documentation Féminine, 1909.
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* Lewis Pyenson and Christophe Verbruggen, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/c/c2/Pyenson_Ego_and_the_International_The_Modernist_Circle_of_George_Sarton.pdf ''"Ego and the International: The Modernist Circle of George Sarton,"''] Isis, Vol. 100, No. 1 (March 2009), pp. 60-78.  
 
* Lewis Pyenson and Christophe Verbruggen, [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/images/c/c2/Pyenson_Ego_and_the_International_The_Modernist_Circle_of_George_Sarton.pdf ''"Ego and the International: The Modernist Circle of George Sarton,"''] Isis, Vol. 100, No. 1 (March 2009), pp. 60-78.  
  
* [[person::Elisée Reclus]], Nouvelle géographie universelle; la terre et les hommes, Paris, Hachette et cie., 1876-94.
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* Elisée Reclus, Nouvelle géographie universelle; la terre et les hommes, Paris, Hachette et cie., 1876-94.
  
* [[person::Edouard Schuré]], [http://tolteque.thierrycros.net/ebooksGratuits/LesGrandsInities-EdouardSchure.pdf ''Les grands initiés: esquisse de l'histoire secrète des religions''], 1889.
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* Edouard Schuré, [http://tolteque.thierrycros.net/ebooksGratuits/LesGrandsInities-EdouardSchure.pdf ''Les grands initiés: esquisse de l'histoire secrète des religions''], 1889.
  
 
* [[wikipedia:Warden Boyd Rayward|Rayward, Warden Boyd]] (ed.), [http://www.worldcat.org/title/european-modernism-and-the-information-society-informing-the-present-understanding-the-past/oclc/145379605&referer=brief_results ''European Modernism and the Information Society: Informing the Present, Understanding the Past.''] Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate, 2008.
 
* [[wikipedia:Warden Boyd Rayward|Rayward, Warden Boyd]] (ed.), [http://www.worldcat.org/title/european-modernism-and-the-information-society-informing-the-present-understanding-the-past/oclc/145379605&referer=brief_results ''European Modernism and the Information Society: Informing the Present, Understanding the Past.''] Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate, 2008.
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* Van Acker, Wouter, [http://staging01.muse.jhu.edu/journals/perspectives_on_science/v019/19.1.van-acker.html “Internationalist Utopias of Visual Education. The Graphic and Scenographic Transformation of the Universal Encyclopaedia in the Work of Paul Otlet, Patrick Geddes, and Otto Neurath”], in ''Perspectives on Science'', Vol.19, nr.1, 2011, p. 32-80.
 
* Van Acker, Wouter, [http://staging01.muse.jhu.edu/journals/perspectives_on_science/v019/19.1.van-acker.html “Internationalist Utopias of Visual Education. The Graphic and Scenographic Transformation of the Universal Encyclopaedia in the Work of Paul Otlet, Patrick Geddes, and Otto Neurath”], in ''Perspectives on Science'', Vol.19, nr.1, 2011, p. 32-80.
  
* Nader Vossoughian, [http://www.academia.edu/3127404/The_Language_of_the_World_Museum_Otto_Neurath_Paul_Otlet_Le_Corbusier "The Language of the World Museum: [[person::Otto Neurath]], Paul Otlet, Le Corbusier"], Transnational Associations 1-2 (January-June 2003), Brussels, pp 82-93.
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* Nader Vossoughian, [http://www.academia.edu/3127404/The_Language_of_the_World_Museum_Otto_Neurath_Paul_Otlet_Le_Corbusier "The Language of the World Museum: Otto Neurath, Paul Otlet, Le Corbusier"], Transnational Associations 1-2 (January-June 2003), Brussels, pp 82-93.
  
 
* Alfred Willis, “The Exoteric and Esoteric Functions of Le Corbusier’s Mundaneum,” Modulus/University of Virginia School of Architecture Review 12, no. 21 (1980).
 
* Alfred Willis, “The Exoteric and Esoteric Functions of Le Corbusier’s Mundaneum,” Modulus/University of Virginia School of Architecture Review 12, no. 21 (1980).
  
== Unsorted ==
 
 
* Theater Adhoc, [http://www.theateradhoc.com/items/pdf/performance-lecture.pdf The humor and tragedy of completeness], 2005
 
* Françoise Levie Filmer Paul Otlet
 
* Stéphanie Manfroid Les réalités d'une aventure documentaire
 
* Jacques Hellemans Paul Otlet (1868-1944), fondateur du mouvement bibliogique international
 
* Bernd Frohmann Discourse and Documentation: Some Implications for Pedagogy and Research
 
* Richard P. Saller Patriarchy, Property and Death in the Roman Family Cambridge University Press
 
* Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Fischetti Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web Paw Prints
 
* Brett M. Frischmann Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources Oxford University Press
 
* Ippolita The dark side of Google
 
* Ian Wilson, Jean-Noel Jeanneney, Teresa Lavender Fagan Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge: A View From Europe ReadHowYouWant.com
 
* Wouter Van Acker The Analogous Spaces of Paul Otlet (1868-1944)
 
* Judge, Anthony, [http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs/otlethyp.php “Union of International Associations – Virtual Organization – Paul Otlet's 100-year Hypertext Conundrum?”], 2001.
 
* Sánchez, Zurita, Manuel, Juan, [http://eprints.rclis.org/8215/ El paradigma otletiano como base de un modelo para la organización y difusión del conocimiento científico], México, El Author, Tesina, Colegio de Bibliotecología, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNAM, 2001.
 
* Wright, Alex, [http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/forgotten_forefather_paul_otlet.php “Forgotten Forefather”], in ''Boxes & Arrows'', 10 November 2003.
 
* Ducheyne, Steffen, “Paul Otlet's Theory of Knowledge and Linguistic Objectivism”, in ''Knowledge Organization'', no 32, 2005, pp. 110–116.
 
* Wright, Alex, [http://www.alexwright.org/glut/ Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages], Washington D.C., Joseph Henry Press, 2007.
 
* Heuvel, Charles van den,  “Building Society, Constructing Knowledge, Weaving the Web”. in ''European Modernism and the Information Society – Informing the Present, Understanding the Past'', Aldershot, 2008, pp. 127–153.
 
* Wright, Alex, [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/science/17mund.html?ex=1371441600&en=dcb3569538ca10b7&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink ''The Web Time Forgot''], The New York Times, 17 June 2008.
 
* Popova, Maria, [http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/06/09/paul-otlet-alex-wright/ “The Birth of the Information Age: How Paul Otlet’s Vision for Cataloging and Connecting Humanity Shaped Our World”], ''Brain Pickings'', 2014.
 
* W. Boyd Rayward Paul Otlet, an encounter
 
  
 
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Cross-readings. Not a bibliography.

Paul Otlet

Re-reading Otlet

Fathers of the internet

Constructing a posthumous pre-history of contemporary networking technologies.

Classifying the world

Don't be evil

Standing on the hands of Internet giants

  • Matthew Fuller, Andrew Goffey, Evil Media. Cambridge, Mass., United States: MIT Press, 2012.
  • Steve Levy In The Plex. Simon & Schuster, 2011.
  • William Miller, Living With Google. In: Journal of Library Administration Volume 47, Issue 1-2, 2008.

Embedded hierarchies

  • Ducheyne, Steffen, “Paul Otlet's Theory of Knowledge and Linguistic Objectivism”, in Knowledge Organization, no 32, 2005, pp. 110–116.
  • Heuvel, Charles van den, “Building Society, Constructing Knowledge, Weaving the Web”. in European Modernism and the Information Society – Informing the Present, Understanding the Past, Aldershot, 2008, pp. 127–153.

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).
  • 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.
  • 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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