European Modernism and the Information Society

Contents: Introduction: European modernism and the information society: conceptual interdependence / W. Boyd Rayward Understanding the information domain: the uneasy relations between sociology and cultural studies and the peculiar absence of history / Frank Webster On the cultural and intellectual context of European documentation in the early twentieth century / Michael Buckland A tale of two narratives: prolegomena to an alternative history of library and information science / Steve Fuller The role of facts in Paul Otlet's modernist project of documentation / Bernd Frohmann Ferdinand Vander Haeghen's shadow on Otlet: European resistance to the Americanized modernism of the Office international de bibliographie / Pieter Uyttenhove and Sylvia Van Peteghem Towers and globes: architectural and epistemological differences between Patrick Geddes's Outlook towers and Paul Otlet's Mundaneums / Pierre Chabard Building society, constructing knowledge, weaving the web: Otlet's visualizations of a global information society and his concept of a universal civilization / Charles van den Heuvel Networking knowledge before the information society: the Manchester Central Library (1934) and the metaphysical-professional philosophy of L.S. Jast / Alistair Black Documentation and utopia : Fabian anticipations of the information society / Alistair S. Duff Public science in Britain and the origins of documentation and information science, 1890-1950 / Dave Muddiman The march of the modern and the reconstitution of the world's knowledge apparatus: H.G. Wells, encyclopedism, and the world brain / W. Boyd Rayward The modern museum in the age of its mechanical reproducibility: Otto Neurath and the Museum of Society and Economy in Vienna / Nader Vossoughian Gesellschaft und wirtschaft: an encyclopedia in Otto Neurath's pictorial statistics from 1930 / Sybilla Nikolow Visualizing social facts: Otto Neurath's isotype project / Frank Hartmann Paper parasite : F.M. Feldhaus and the historiography of technology / Markus Krajewski Roots of mediating information: aspects of the German information movement / Thomas Hapke