Memory Practices in the Sciences
- Paperback
274 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2008
Summary
How the way we hold knowledge about the past-in books, in file folders, in databases-affects the kind of stories we tell about the past.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 r…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262524896 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262524899 |
| Author: | Geoffrey C. Bowker |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 274 |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2008 |
| Weight: | 386g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Inside Technology |
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Bowker offers a playful and richly textured look at the way we maintain records of the past and the multitude of purposes such memory practices can serve in the present. In so doing he reminds readers that the context in which we record the past shapes the stories we can tell.
—Stephanie Young, Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological SciencesEvery reader will find much to ponder in this provocative exploration of the relationship of the present to the past.
—Jean Alexander, College and Research LibrariesAbout The Author
Geoffrey C. Bowker
Geoffrey C. Bowker is Professor and Director of the Evoke Lab at the University of California, Irvine. He is the coauthor (with Susan Leigh Star) of Sorting Things Out- Classification and Its Consequences and the author of Memory Practices in the Sciences, both published by the MIT Press.
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