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