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The order of things
12017-12-24T05:02:40-08:00Andrea Davise50475e163fb87bc8bd10c6c0244468fd91e8da5274713Michel Foucault, Les mots et les choses: une archéologie des sciences humaines. (Paris: Gallimard, 1966).plain2018-01-07T06:46:03-08:00Andrea Davise50475e163fb87bc8bd10c6c0244468fd91e8da5
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Classification: Databases and Information Systems
In his groundbreaking work, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences, Michel Foucault posed the question "on what ‘table’, according to what grid of identities, similitudes, analogies, have we become accustomed to sort out so many different and similar things?" As you collaboratively annotate this week's readings and resources, consider the significance of Foucault's question for the digital world.
1. Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. (New York: Vintage Books, 1966) preface.Hypothes.is link.
2. C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, "Classification and its Structures," in Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth eds., Companion to Digital Humanities (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Professional, 2004), http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/.
3. Stephen Ramsay, "Databases," in Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth eds., Companion to Digital Humanities (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Professional, 2004), http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/.
4. Jessica Seddon Wallak and Ramesh Srinivasan, "Local-Global: Reconciling Mismatched Ontologies in Development Information Systems," in System Sciences, 2009 HICSS'09. 42nd Hawaii International Conference. Hypothes.is link.