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EUROPEAN MODERNISM AND THE INFORMATION SOCIETY

European Modernism and the Information Society

Informing the Present, Understanding the Past

Edited by
W. Boyd Rayward
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
European modernism and the information society: informing
the present, understanding the past
1. Information society - Europe - History 2. Information
science - Europe - History 3. Modernism (Aesthetics)
I. Rayward, W. Boyd, 1939
304.4'833'094

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
European modernism and the information society: informing the present, understanding the
past / [edited by] by W. Boyd Rayward.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-4928-1
1. Information science--Europe--History. 2. Documentation--Europe--History.
3. Information society--Europe. 4. Knowledge, Sociology of--Europe. I. Rayward, W. Boyd,
1939
Z665.2.E85E87 2007
020.94--dc22
2007023683

ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-4928-1 (hbk)

Contents

1. European Modernism and the Information Society: Introduction
   W. Boyd Rayward
2. 1 Understanding the Information Domain: The Uneasy Relations between Sociology and Cultural Studies and the Peculiar Absence of History
   Frank Webster
3. 2 On the Cultural and Intellectual Context of European Documentation in the Early Twentieth Century
   Michael Buckland
4. 3 A Tale of Two Narratives: Prolegomena to an Alternative History of Library and Information Science
   Steve Fuller
5. 4 The Role of Facts in Paul Otlet's Modernist Project of Documentation
   Bernd Frohmann
6. 5 Ferdinand van der Haeghen's Shadow on Otlet: European Resistance to the Americanized Modernism of the Office International de Bibliographie
   Pieter Uyttenhove and Sylvia Van Peteghem
7. 6 Towers and Globes: Architectural and Epistemological Differences between Patrick Geddes's Outlook Towers and Paul Otlet's Mundaneums
   Pierre Chabard
8. 7 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
9. 8 'A Necessity of Our Time': Documents and Culture in Suzanne Briet's Qu'est-ce que la documentation?
   Ronald E. Day
10. 9 Networking Knowledge before the Information Society: The Manchester Central Library (1934) and the Metaphysical-Professional Philosophy of L.S. Jast
    Alistair Black
11. 10 Documentation and Utopia: Fabian Anticipations of the Information Society
    Alistair S. Duff
12. 11 Public Science in Britain and the Origins of Documentation and Information Science, 18901950
    Dave Muddiman
13. 12 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
14. 13 The Modern Museum in the Age of its Mechanical Reproducibility: Otto Neurath and the Museum of Society and Economy in Vienna
    Nader Vossoughian
15. 14 Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft : An Encyclopedia in Otto Neurath's Pictorial Statistics from 1930
    Sybilla Nikolow
16. 15 Visualizing Social Facts: Otto Neurath's ISOTYPE Project
    Frank Hartmann
17. 16 Paper Parasite: FM. Feldhaus and the Historiography of Technology
    Markus Krajewski
18. 17 Roots of Mediating Information: Aspects of the German Information Movement
    Thomas Hapke

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Alistair Black read history at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the University of London, taking his PhD in 1989 through the Polytechnic of North London. Having qualified as a librarian he occupied professional posts in both academic and public libraries in the 1980s. In 1990 he became a lecturer in information studies at Leeds Metropolitan University where he is currently professor of library and information history. He was chair of the Library History Group of the Library Association, 1992-1999, and is the current editor of its journal. Library History. Since 2003 he has served as chair of the International Federation of Library Association's Section on Library History. He is the recipient of a number of research grants from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, and is a member of the Council's Peer Review College. Among a number of books, he has just published, with Dave Muddiman and Helen Plant, The Early Information Society: Information Management in Britain before the Computer (2007).

Michael Buckland studied history at Oxford and Librarianship at Sheffield University, from which he received his PhD degree. After working in libraries at Oxford, Lancaster, and Indiana, he was dean of the School of Library and Information Studies at Berkeley, 1976-1984, then assistant vice president for library plans and policies for the campuses of the University of California, 1983-1987. He was president of the American Society for Information Science in 1998 and is currently emeritus professor of information management and systems and co-director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley. The most recent of his several books is Emanuel Goldberg and His Knowledge Machine: Information, Invention and Political Force (2006).

Pierre Chabard is an architect, critic and historian of architecture. Graduate of the School of Architecture Paris-Belleville, he took a master's degree from the University of Paris VIII. He has recently completed a doctoral dissertation entitled 'Cities in exhibition: town-planning and architecture of knowledge in the work of Patrick Geddes', for which he obtained a three-year fellowship in the research laboratory 'Architecture/Culture/Socits XIXe/XXe sicle' (C.N.R.S. School of Architecture Paris-Malaquais). Teaching since 2000 in various schools of architecture in Paris, he is currently lecturer in the School of Architecture 'Ville et Territoires' (Marne-la-Valle), where he teaches history of architecture and town planning. He is a member of the editorial board of the architectural review Le Visiteu and is a frequent contributor to the magazine L'architecture d'Aujourd'hui.

Ronald E. Day earned his master's degree in philosophy and his PhD in comparative literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton, and a master's degree in library and information science from the University of California at Berkeley. He is an associate professor of library and information science at Indiana University. He is author of The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History ; and Power (2001) and with several collaborators he has just published an English translation of Suzanne Briefs Qu'est-ce que la documentation? ( What Is Documentation?) (2006).

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