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Series: History and Foundations of Information Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12245.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262369961
Series: History and Foundations of Information Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12245.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262369961
Series: History and Foundations of Information Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12245.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262369961
Series: History and Foundations of Information Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12245.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262369961
Series: History and Foundations of Information Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12245.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262369961
Series: History and Foundations of Information Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12245.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262369961
Series: History and Foundations of Information Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12245.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262369961
Series: History and Foundations of Information Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12245.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262369961
Series: History and Foundations of Information Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12245.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262369961
Series: History and Foundations of Information Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12245.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262369961
Series: History and Foundations of Information Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12245.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262369961
Series: History and Foundations of Information Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12245.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262369961
Series: History and Foundations of Information Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12245.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262369961
Series: History and Foundations of Information Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12245.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262369961
Series: History and Foundations of Information Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12245.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262369961
Series: History and Foundations of Information Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12245.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262369961
How biodiversity classification, with its ranking of species, has social and political implications as well as implications for the field of information studies. The idea that species live in nature as pure and clear-cut named individuals is a fiction, as scientists well know. According to Robert D. Montoya, classifications are powerful mechanisms and we must better attend to the machinations of power inherent in them, as well as to how the effects of this power proliferate beyond the boundaries of their original intent. We must acknowledge the many ways our classifications are implicated in environmental, ecological, and social justice work—and information specialists must play a role in updating our notions of what it means to classify. In Power of Position , Montoya shows how classifications are systems that relate one entity with other entities, requiring those who construct a system to value an entity's relative importance—by way of its position—within a system of other entities. These practices, says Montoya, are important ways of constituting and exerting power. Classification also has very real-world consequences. An animal classified as protected and endangered, for example, is protected by law. Montoya also discusses the Catalogue of Life, a new kind of composite classification that reconciles many local (“traditional”) taxonomies, forming a unified taxonomic backbone structure for organizing biological data. Finally, he shows how the theories of information studies are applicable to realms far beyond those of biological classification.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 03 August 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13630.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262365499
In 1937, H. G. Wells proposed a predigital, freely available World Encyclopedia to represent a civilization-saving World Brain. In a series of talks and essays in 1937, H. G. Wells proselytized for what he called a “World Brain,” as manifested in a World Encyclopedia—a repository of scientifically established knowledge—that would spread enlightenment around the world and lead to world peace. Wells, known to readers today as the author of The War of the Worlds and other science fiction classics, was imagining something like a predigital Wikipedia. The World Encyclopedia would provide a summary of verified reality (in about forty volumes); it would be widely available, free of copyright, and utilize the latest technology. Of course, as Bruce Sterling points out in the foreword to this edition of Wells's work, the World Brain didn't happen; the internet did. And yet, Wells anticipated aspects of the internet, envisioning the World Brain as a technical system of networked knowledge (in Sterling's words, a “hypothetical super-gadget”). Wells's optimism about the power of information might strike readers today as naïvely utopian, but possibly also inspirational.
Book: World Brain
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 03 August 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13630.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262365499
Book: World Brain
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 03 August 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13630.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262365499
Book: World Brain
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 03 August 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13630.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262365499