Book description
The term "hyperdocumentation" is a hyperbole that seems to characterize a paradox. The leading discussions on this topic bring in diverse ideas such as that of data, the fantasy of Big Data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, algorithmic processing, the flow of information and the outstanding successes of disinformation.The purpose of this book is to show that the current context of documentation is just another step in human construction that has been ongoing for not centuries but millennia and which, since the end of the 19th century, has been accelerating. Coined by Paul Otlet in 1934 in his Traite de Documentation, "hyperdocumentation" refers to the concept of documentation that is constantly being expanded and extended in its functionalities and prerogatives.
While, according to Otlet, everything could potentially be documented in this way, increasingly we find that it is our lives that are being hyperdocumented. Hyperdocumentation manifests as an increase not only in the quantity of information that is processed but also in its scope, as information is progressively integrated across areas that were previously poorly documented or even undocumented.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Hyperdocumentation According to Paul Otlet
- 2 Hyperdocumentation as a Triumph of Documentality
- 3 Hyperhuman or Hypermachine?
- 4 Towards Hyperdocumentary Regimes
- 5 Between Knowledge Indexing and Existence Indexing
- 6 Personal Documentation: Between “The Self” and “Myself”
- 7 The Hyperdocumentalists of Our Lives
- 8 Documentation of All the Senses
- 9 Free (or Open?) Hyperdocumentation
- 10 Conclusion: Is it Necessary to Go to San Junipero?
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Postface
- P.1. Back to the future: against, but very close to Paul Otlet
- P.2. Beyond the Traité and the Krisis
- P.3. The current documentary laboratory: some characteristics
- P.4. Intelligences always already collective and machined
- P.5. Uncertain area
- P.6. Against the smothering paste of the homogeneous
- P.7. “Perplication” in knowledge
- P.8. Doxic tensions in fragmented Encyclopedism
- P.9. Machine interfaces
- P.10. Knowledge, thought in the encyclopedism in splintered form
- P.11. What criteriology for encyclopedic writings?
- P.12. Boundaries in fragmented encyclopedism: dissensus
- P.13. Borders being everywhere, the critical scientific work consists in making them evolve towards zones of transformation and creation
- P.14. Fragmented encyclopedism: a milieu for controversy?
- References
- Index
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: Hyperdocumentation
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2021
- Publisher(s): Wiley-ISTE
- ISBN: 9781786306449
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