Book 2006
Memory practices in the sciences
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- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Science
- Philosophy
- Knowledge, Theory of
- Theory of Knowledge
- Information technology
- Science, philosophy
- Représentation des connaissances
- Connaissance, Théorie de la
The ways we hold knowledge about the past shapes how we tell stories about it. Bowker looks at the relation of our information structures to our information and maintains that over the past 200 years information technology has converged with the nature and production of scientific knowledge.