Memory Practices in the Sciences
Geoffrey C. Bowker
(available December 2005, MIT Press)
Examines three epochs (19th, 20th, 21st centuries) to see how technical, formal and social practices in each period ultimately affect how knowledge is remembered and recorded. Looks at how information infrastructures shape the way we hold knowledge and shape the kind of stories we tell about the past. For example, the 19th century’s central science, geology, mapped the natural and social worlds into a single time package (despite obvious discontinuities).
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