Literature/2008/Rayward


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Contents

 * Introduction: European modernism and the information society: conceptual interdependence / W. Boyd Rayward
 * Understanding the information domain : the uneasy relations between sociology and cultural studies and the peculiar absence of history / Frank Webster
 * On the cultural and intellectual context of European documentation in the early twentieth century / Michael Buckland
 * A tale of two narratives : prolegomena to an alternative history of library and information science / Steve Fuller
 * The role of facts in Paul Otlet's modernist project of documentation / Bernd Frohmann
 * Ferdinand Vander Haeghen's shadow on Otlet : European resistance to the Americanized modernism of the Office international de bibliographie / Pieter Uyttenhove and Sylvia Van Peteghem
 * Towers and globes : architectural and epistemological differences between Patrick Geddes's Outlook towers and Paul Otlet's Mundaneums / Pierre Chabard
 * Building society, constructing knowledge, weaving the web : Otlet's visualizations of a global information society and his concept of a universal civilization / Charles van den Heuvel
 * Networking knowledge before the information society : the Manchester Central Library (1934) and the metaphysical-professional philosophy of L.S. Jast / Alistair Black
 * Documentation and utopia : Fabian anticipations of the information society / Alistair S. Duff
 * Public science in Britain and the origins of documentation and information science, 1890-1950 / Dave Muddiman
 * The march of the modern and the reconstitution of the world's knowledge apparatus : H.G. Wells, encyclopedism, and the world brain / W. Boyd Rayward
 * The modern museum in the age of its mechanical reproducibility : Otto Neurath and the Museum of Society and Economy in Vienna / Nader Vossoughian
 * Gesellschaft und wirtschaft : an encyclopedia in Otto Neurath's pictorial statistics from 1930 / Sybilla Nikolow
 * Visualizing social facts : Otto Neurath's isotype project / Frank Hartmann
 * Paper parasite : F.M. Feldhaus and the historiography of technology / Markus Krajewski
 * Roots of mediating information : aspects of the German information movement / Thomas Hapke

Acknowledgements

 * It arose from a small invitational conference at the University of Illinois, 'European Modernism and the Information Society: Informing the Present, Understanding the Past', held 6-8 May 2005. This conference itself followed a small informal meeting of a group of scholars interested in Paul Otlet and the figures surrounding him ....

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