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Article: Memory Practices in the Sciences.(Book review)
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- Libraries and the Cultural Record
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- January 1, 2007
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Memory Practices in the Sciences. By Geoffrey C. Bowker. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005. xi, 261 pp. $34.95. ISBN 0-262-02589-2.
Memory, not only in the sciences, is Geoffrey C. Bowker's touchstone in his far-ranging consideration of memory practices of the past two hundred years. Memory requires classifications--slots into which things to be memorized can be put for storage, whether in an individual mind, a shared cultural archive, or an electronic database. The present classifies and maintains its information with an eye to what the future might need, so memory is deeply involved with ways of knowing and with perception of the things to be remembered and of ...