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Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe

Alberto Cevolini

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We are so accustomed to use digital memories as data storage devices, that we are oblivious to the improbability of such a practice. Habit hides what we habitually use. To understand the worldwide success of archives and card indexing systems that allow to remember more because they allow to forget more than before, the evolution of scholarly practices and the transformation of cognitive habits in the early modern age must be investigated. This volume contains contributions by nearly every distinguished scholar in the field of early modern knowledge management and filing systems, and offers a remarkable synthesis of the present state of scholarship. A final section explores some current issues in record-keeping and note-taking systems, and provides valuable cues for future research.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publish Date: Nov 15th, 2016
  • Pages: 404
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.50in - 6.40in - 1.10in - 1.75lb
  • EAN: 9789004278462
  • Categories: • Library & Information Science - General• Modern - General• Europe - Renaissance

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About the Author

Alberto Cevolini is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Knowledge at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He has published books and many articles in the field of intellectual history and knowledge management evolution in early modern Europe, including De arte excerpendi. Imparare a dimenticare nella modernità (Leo S. Olschki, 2006).

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"The present volume collects a cohesive series of essays, many advancing key results of scholarship unavailable in English, about the development and significance of knowledge management systems from antiquity to the eighteenth century, along with several well-integrated more contemporary case studies. [...] The volume's learned essays demonstrate how seriously we should take forms of note taking as constitutive of, not ancillary to, intellectual history and the history of science from antiquity to the present."
Matthew L. Jones, Columbia University. In: Isis, Vol. 109, No 4 (December 2018), pp. 852-853.

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