Ordering Knowledge (And some of its problems in libraries and archives)

Ordering Knowledge:
Historical and fictitious examples of ordering knowledge/classification systems
Logistics of thoughts, annotations, knowledge production

1.
Commonplace Books

2.
The Zettelkasten / The index card:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karteikarte
https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/47/dillon_krajewski.php

Electronic/digital card index [according to Luhmann]

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3.
Loose-leaf collection / Loseblattsammlung

4.
Hypertext [Non linear text]

5.
Dewey Decimal Classification SystemDominant classification system for the indexing of library collections

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Fictitious/speculative/unrealized ordering of knowledge

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As we may think, Vannevar Bush [early essay on the "memex", the "memory extender".]

7.
Analog Computer for Knowledge Organization [hypertext precursor]
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex

8.
Die Brücke Internationales Institut zur Organisierung der geistigen Arbeit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Br%C3%BCcke_(institute)

9.
The Aleph [short story] by Jorge Luis Borges, Consecutive (knowledge in language and text) VS simultaneity and Infinity)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aleph_(short_story)

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(And some of its problems in libraries and archives):
A few links in relation to problems of (supposed universaly appliable) naming, classifying or forms of division in libraries or archives. Main sources and insights stem from the artist Eva Weinmayr’s research based practice often in close collaboration with Lucie Kolb.

10.
Teaching the Radical Catalogue
A Syllabus
https://criticalmedialab.ch/projects/teaching-the-radical-catalogue/

11.
Teaching the Radical Catalog (PDF)
Emily Drabinski
https://ischool.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/drabinski_radcat.pdf

12.
Kunstbibliothek Stiftung Sitterwerk St Gallen (CH) – Reading the Library
https://evaweinmayr.com/work/st-gallen-art-library-sitterwerk/

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More on Eva Weinmayr
https://evaweinmayr.com/