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Probes the development of information management after World War II and its consequences for public memory and human agency. Nathan Johnson charts turning points where concepts of memory became durable in new computational technologies and modern memory infrastructures took hold.

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Architects of Memory is poised to make an original and important contribution to the interdisciplinary study of the rhetorics of public memory and information science. Johnson is at his best when illuminating the actual techniques of public memory - the hard, everyday material ways in which key arbiters organize public memory." - Timothy Barney, author of Mapping the Cold War: Cartography and the Framing of America's International Power

Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Building Memory's Infrastructure
  • Chapter 2. A Universal Memory Machine
  • Intermezzo: Exorcising the Library Spirit: Library Labor as a TechnÊ of Memory
  • Chapter 3. Hybrid Memory Labor
  • Intermezzo: Calvin Mooers's Zatocodes
  • Chapter 4. Memory Conflicts
  • Intermezzo: Dorothy Crosland's Book Truck
  • Chapter 5. Memory's Coin
  • Chapter 6. Memory's Infrastructure
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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        Publisher The University of Alabama Press
        Published 5/30/2020 12:00:00 AM
        ISBN-13 9780817320607
        978-0817320607
        ISBN-10 0817320601
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        Description

        Book Synopsis
        Probes the development of information management after World War II and its consequences for public memory and human agency. Nathan Johnson charts turning points where concepts of memory became durable in new computational technologies and modern memory infrastructures took hold.

        Trade Review
        Architects of Memory is poised to make an original and important contribution to the interdisciplinary study of the rhetorics of public memory and information science. Johnson is at his best when illuminating the actual techniques of public memory - the hard, everyday material ways in which key arbiters organize public memory." - Timothy Barney, author of Mapping the Cold War: Cartography and the Framing of America's International Power

        Table of Contents
        • List of Figures
        • Acknowledgments
        • Introduction
        • Chapter 1. Building Memory's Infrastructure
        • Chapter 2. A Universal Memory Machine
        • Intermezzo: Exorcising the Library Spirit: Library Labor as a TechnÊ of Memory
        • Chapter 3. Hybrid Memory Labor
        • Intermezzo: Calvin Mooers's Zatocodes
        • Chapter 4. Memory Conflicts
        • Intermezzo: Dorothy Crosland's Book Truck
        • Chapter 5. Memory's Coin
        • Chapter 6. Memory's Infrastructure
        • Notes
        • References
        • Index

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