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Carregando... The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information (edição: 2021)de Craig Robertson (Autor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. The author does admit during the preface that the genesis of this work was something of a satire on the arcane academic subdiscipline of media materialism. It is never clear whether the author intends the same for this book. Whatever its purpose, the result is a tediously ideological treatment that provides relatively little understanding of the topic as indicated by the title. A much more descriptive title would have been "A Critical Theory Approach to Early 20th Century Office Equipment Advertisements." It is not surprising that file cabinet marketing material would be consistent with early 20th century culture, or express the power dynamics of the1920s office environment. Morbidly fascinated by the academic pretense, I found myself circling chronically overused academic buzzwords such as modern, gendered, mode, materiality, and verticality, which appeared an astounding number of times. Treated as hugely profound concepts, these academic tropes were repeated woven into for long, boring and uncompelling hypotheses about the motivations of office equipment designers, and the organizations that purchased their products. Perhaps pragmatic motivation provides less potential for philosophical and political speculation, but it often is the case that form does largely follow function. There are multiple practical reasons why file cabinets, and their contents, ended up in vertical arrangements. After struggling to the end of this short but difficult text, I really don't know what the book is for. If it is meant to be a legitimate academic work, and not a satire, it doesn't provide much new insight into the evolution or impact of the latter stages of physical data storage technology. It gives the impression of a naïve anthropologist, peering through the lens of their own significant expectations, attempting to assign profound symbolic meaning to objects of relatively prosaic origin. ( ) sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information The ubiquity of the filing cabinet in the twentieth-century office space, along with its noticeable absence of style, has obscured its transformative role in the histories of both information technology and work. In the first in-depth history of this neglected artifact, Craig Robertson explores how the filing cabinet profoundly shaped the way that information and data have been sorted, stored, retrieved, and used. Invented in the 1890s, the filing cabinet was a result of the nineteenth-century faith in efficiency. Previously, paper records were arranged haphazardly: bound into books, stacked in piles, curled into slots, or impaled on spindles. The filing cabinet organized loose papers in tabbed folders that could be sorted alphanumerically, radically changing how people accessed, circulated, and structured information. Robertson's unconventional history of the origins of the information age posits the filing cabinet as an information storage container, an "automatic memory" machine that contributed to a new type of information labor privileging manual dexterity over mental deliberation. Gendered assumptions about women's nimble fingers helped to naturalize the changes that brought women into the workforce as low-level clerical workers. The filing cabinet emerges from this unexpected account as a sophisticated piece of information technology and a site of gendered labor that with its folders, files, and tabs continues to shape how we interact with information and data in today's digital world. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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