Architects of memory : information and rhetoric in a networked archival age

Summary:

"In Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age, Nathan R. Johnson charts turning points where concepts of memory became durable in new computational technologies and modern memory infrastructures took hold. He works through both familiar and esoteric memory technologies-from the card catalog to the book cart to Zatocoding and keyword indexing-as he delineates histories of librarianship and information science and provides a working vocabulary for understanding rhetoric's role in contemporary memory practices. Probes the development of information management after World War II and its consequences for public memory and human agency"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780817320607
ISBN: 0817320601
Physical Description: xiii, 205 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2020]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Building memory's infrastructure -- A universal memory machine -- Intermezzo: Exorcising the library spirit: Library labor as a technê of memory -- Hybrid memory labor -- Intermezzo: Calvin Mooers's zatocodes -- Memory conflicts -- Intermezzo: Dorothy Crosland's book truck -- Memory's coin -- Memory's infrastructure.