Bibliograph

Architects of memory, information and rhetoric in a networked archival age, by Nathan R. Johnson

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Label

Architects of memory, information and rhetoric in a networked archival age, by Nathan R. Johnson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Architects of memory

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

1154071312

Responsibility statement

by Nathan R. Johnson

Series statement

Rhetoric, culture, and social critiqueProject Muse eBooks

Sub title

information and rhetoric in a networked archival age

Summary

"In Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age, Nathan R. Johnson charts turning points where concepts of memory became durable in new computational technologies and modern memory infrastructures took hold. He works through both familiar and esoteric memory technologies-from the card catalog to the book cart to Zatocoding and keyword indexing-as he delineates histories of librarianship and information science and provides a working vocabulary for understanding rhetoric's role in contemporary memory practices. Probes the development of information management after World War II and its consequences for public memory and human agency"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Building memory's infrastructure -- A universal memory machine -- Intermezzo: Exorcising the library spirit: Library labor as a technê of memory -- Hybrid memory labor -- Intermezzo: Calvin Mooers's zatocodes -- Memory conflicts -- Intermezzo: Dorothy Crosland's book truck -- Memory's coin -- Memory's infrastructure

Target audience

specialized

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