European modernism and the information society: Informing the present, understanding the past (2008)
Rayward, W. Boyd (Editor)
Ashgate
Pages: 343
Physical Details: xiii + 343 pp.; ill.
Language: English
Description 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. (from WorldCat) See:
Chapter Krajewski, Markus (2008) Paper parasite: F. M. Feldhaus and the historiography of technology. In: European modernism and the information society: Informing the present, understanding the past (p. 295).
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