Taking Stock: Media Inventories in the German Nineteenth Century - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3111059855 ISBN 13 : 9783111059853

Editeur : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024

Synopsis

The volume examines the proliferation of inventorying models and practices as cultural techniques of knowledge organization and production during the long nineteenth century. While inventories are still broadly treated as raw data and unprocessed source materials, the book shows how they function as complex media formats, intersecting and interfering with other material techniques to produce, store, distribute, organize and process cultural information. How do inventories work against and in dialogue with other media of collection, storage and retrieval such as catalogs, indexes, bibliographies, and archives; what new media configurations do techniques of inventorying enable and how, in turn, are such techniques shaped by the media channels and formats they employ; what is at stake in the critical effort of "taking stock", whether as commercial, bureaucratic, literary, historiographical, or scientific operations; finally, what do such operations tell us specifically about the production and circulation of knowledge in the German nineteenth century?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sean Franzel, University of Missouri; Ilinca Iurascu, University of British Columbia, Petra S. McGillen, Dartmouth College, USA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3111059855
• ISBN 13: 9783111059853
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Éditeur: Franzel Sean B., Iurascu Ilinca, McGillen Petra S.
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