Forgetting machines : : knowledge management evolution in early modern Europe /

Forgetting machines : : knowledge management evolution in early modern Europe / / edited By 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...

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Superior document:Library of the written word ; v. 53
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Cevolini, Alberto.
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2016]
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Library of the Written Word 53.
Physical Description:1 online resource (401 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe: An Introduction
  • Notebooks and Collections of Excerpts: Moments of ars excerpendi in the Greco-Roman World / Tiziano Dorandi
  • From domus sapientiae to artes excerpendi: Lambert Schenkel’s De memoria (1593) and the Transformation of the Art of Memory / Koji Kuwakino
  • Christoph Just Udenius and the German ars excerpendi around 1700: On the Flourishing and Disappearance of a Pedagogical Genre / Helmut Zedelmaier
  • The Art of Excerpting in the Eighteenth Century Literature: Subversion and Continuity of an Old Scholarly Practice / Élisabeth Décultot
  • Notebooks, Recollection, and External Memory: Some Early Modern English Ideas and Practices / Richard Yeo
  • Storing Expansions: Openness and Closure in Secondary Memories
  • Johann Amos Comenius: Early Modern Metaphysics of Knowledge and ars excerpendi / Iveta Nakládalová
  • The ‘White Book’ of Miguel de Salinas: Design, Matter, and Destiny of a codex excerptorius / José Aragüés Aldaz
  • Albrecht von Haller as an ‘Enlightened’ Reader-Observer / Fabian Krämer
  • Medical Note-Taking in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Michael Stolberg
  • Early Modern Attitudes toward the Delegation of Copying and Note-Taking / Ann Blair
  • Niklas Luhmann’s Card Index: Thinking Tool, Communication Partner, Publication Machine / Johannes F.K. Schmidt
  • Note-Keeping: History, Theory, Practice of a Counter-Measurement against Forgetting / Markus Krajewski
  • Tools to Remember an Ever-Changing Past / Elena Esposito
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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