Ordering Knowledge:
Historical and fictitious examples of ordering knowledge/classification systems
Logistics of thoughts, annotations, knowledge production
1.
Commonplace Books
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kollektaneenbuch
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
Digital card index (according to Luhmann)
http://zettelkasten.danielluedecke.de/
3.
Loose-leaf collection
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loseblattsammlung
4.
Hypertext
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext
5.
Dewey Decimal Classification System
Dominant classification system for the indexing of library collections
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey-Dezimalklassifikation
6.
Fictitious/speculative/unrealized ordering of knowledge
AS WE MAY THINK, VANNEVAR BUSH
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think
Die Brücke
Internationales Institut zur Organisierung der geistigen Arbeit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Br%C3%BCcke_(institute)
Analog Computer for Knowledge Organization (hypertext precursor)
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex
The Aleph of Jorge Luis Borges
Consecutive (knowledge in language and text) VS simultaneity (infinity)
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Aleph
(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 (sometimes in close collaboration with Lucie Kolb).
Teaching the Radical Catalogue
A Syllabus
https://criticalmedialab.ch/projects/teaching-the-radical-catalogue/
Teaching the Radical Catalog (PDF)
Emily Drabinski
https://ischool.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/drabinski_radcat.pdf
Kunstbibliothek Stiftung Sitterwerk St Gallen (CH) – Reading the Library
https://evaweinmayr.com/work/st-gallen-art-library-sitterwerk/
More on Eva Weinmayr
https://evaweinmayr.com/
- Perspectives and framing under the disguise of neutrality
- Library as disciplinary institution
- Classification – a hierarchical architecture to house the universe of knowledge
https://wiki.evaweinmayr.com/index.php/5_Reflection,_theorization_of_projects