Memory practices in the sciences.

Autor/in	Bowker, Geoffrey C.
Titel	Memory practices in the sciences.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass. u.a.: MIT Pr. (2005), XI, 261 S.Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	Inside technology
Beigaben	Illustrationen; Literaturangaben S. 232-253
Zusatzinformation	Inhaltsverzeichnis Klappentext
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	0-262-02589-2; 978-0-262-02589-8
Schlagwörter	Wissen; Erinnerung; Archiv; Datenbank; Erinnerung; Geologie; Kybernetik; Naturwissenschaften; Wissen; Speicherung; Globalisierung; Wissenstransfer; Geologie; Geschichte (Histor); Datenbank; Kybernetik; Naturwissenschaften; Globalisierung; Wissenschaftsgeschichte; 19. Jahrhundert; 20. Jahrhundert; 21. Jahrhundert; Speicherung; Archiv
Abstract	The way we record knowledge, and the web of technical, formal, and social practices that surrounds it, inevitably affects the knowledge that we record. The ways we hold knowledge about the past - in handwritten manuscripts, in printed books, in file folders, in databases - shape the kind of stories we tell about that past. In this lively and erudite look at the relation of our information infrastructures to our information, [the author] examines how, over the past two hundred years, information technology has converged with the nature and production of scientific knowledge. His story weaves a path between the social and political work of creating an explicit, indexical memory for science - the making of infrastructures - and the variety of ways we continually reconfigure, lose, and regain the past. At a time when memory is so cheap and its recording is so protean, [the author] reminds us of the centrality of what and how we choose to forget. In [this book] he looks at three "memory epochs" of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries and their particular reconstructions and reconfigurations of scientific knowledge. The nineteenth century's central science, geology, mapped both the social and the natural world into a single time package (despite apparent discontinuities), as, in a different way, did mid-twentieth-century cybernetics. Both, [the author] argues, packaged time in ways indexed by their information technologies to permit traffic between the social and natural worlds. Today's sciences of biodiversity, meanwhile, "database the world" in a way that excludes certain spaces, entities, and times. We use the tools of the present to look at the past, says [the author]; we project onto nature our modes of organizing our own affairs. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2008/2