TY  - BOOK
AU  - Day,Ronald E.
TI  - The modern invention of information: discourse, history, and power 
SN  - 9780809323906
AV  - HM851 .D38 2001
U1  - 306.4209 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Carbondale
PB  - Southern Illinois University Press
KW  - Information society
KW  - History
KW  - Information theory
KW  - Information theory in literature
KW  - Information science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - fast
N1  - Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Remembering "Information" European Documentation: Paul Otlet and Suzanne Brier Information Theory, Cybernetics, and the Discoure of "Man" Pierre L, y and the "Virtual" Heidegger and Benjamin: The Metaphysics and Fetish of Information Conclusion: "Information" and the Role of Critical Theory Notes Works Cited Index; Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-134) and index
N2  - "Examining texts from different information ages in Europe and the United States, Ronald E. Day argues that the history of information culture in the twentieth century ideologically shapes the very form for history and historicity in modernity." "After laying the groundwork and justifying his method of close reading for this study, Day examines the texts of two pre-World War II documentalists, Paul Otlet and Suzanne Briet. Through the work of Otlet and Briet, Day shows how documentation and information were associated with notions of cultural progress. Both writers understood documentation to reflect historical progress as well as to rationally create social order and community."--Jacket
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