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'Knowledge will forever govern ignorance': Power, (keyword) and ideas of 'information society' at the Library of Congress.

机译：“知识将永远支配无知”：国会图书馆的权力，（关键词）和“信息社会”的观念。

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This is--reportedly--the "age of information." But is it a time when the perfect transparency of knowledge returns us to an idyllic pastorale of Jeffersonian democracy? Or is a time of Orwellian surveillance and seamless, corporate hegemony? I argue that "utopian" or "dystopian" conceptions of "information" are on some level nonsensical without a cultural understanding of "information" in institutions and social life. In this dissertation, I look to the cultural dimensions of "information society" at the Library of Congress, the largest library in the world and an organization in the throes of a drama involving conflicts and contradictions between Gutenberg pasts and McLuhan-esque futures.; In order to study these powerful ideas, I pursued ethnographic research at the Library of Congress (LC) from 1994 to 1997, engaging in participant observation and interviews with LC staff and users alongside research into the cultural discourses of the "information age." I concentrate on three, hotly disputed areas at the LC: physical and symbolic spaces structuring work and research, "knowledge-machines" (e.g., catalogs, databases) ultimately productive of what we would call "information society" and work and research as a social relation. I find that the contradictions of "information society" are thrown into relief as users, staff and management struggle over the Library's future, some hoping to distance themselves from an atavistic past while others trying to forestall a menacing, "digital future." The "Digital Library" allows an "information" remarkably free--in its "transparency"--of conflicting interpretation and historical construction, neatly eliding the LC's manifold racial and labor problems. I argue here that a "digital library" or a "library without walls" may have the effect of constricting communications and "information," reinforcing existing hierarchies in the act of a "return" to an imagined past. By seeking to transcend its antiquated computer records and its fractious labor problems, the LC suppresses the social dimension of "information" as an historical process involving discourses on race, labor and nation. Ironically, this reduction of contextual knowledge threatens to delegitimate the Library as a national institution.
机译：据报道，这就是“信息时代”。但是，是否是时候，知识的完全透明化使我们回到了杰斐逊式民主的田园牧歌风格？还是Orwellian监视和无缝的企业霸权时代？我认为，在没有文化上对制度和社会生活中“信息”的文化理解的情况下，“信息”的“乌托邦”或“反乌托邦”概念在某种程度上是荒谬的。在这篇论文中，我着眼于国会图书馆，世界上最大的图书馆以及一个涉及古腾堡历史与麦克卢汉式未来之间的冲突和矛盾的戏剧组织中的“信息社会”的文化层面。为了研究这些有力的想法，我从1994年至1997年在美国国会图书馆（LC）从事民族志研究，参与参与者观察以及与LC员工和用户的访谈，同时研究了“信息时代”的文化话语。我主要关注LC的三个争议激烈的领域：构成工作和研究的物理和符号空间，最终构成我们称为“信息社会”的“知识机器”（例如目录，数据库）以及作为一个整体的工作和研究。社会关系。我发现，随着用户，员工和管理人员为图书馆的未来而奋斗，“信息社会”的矛盾得到了缓解，一些人希望与愚蠢的过去保持距离，而另一些人则试图阻止险恶的“数字未来”。 “数字图书馆”允许“信息”以其“透明度”显着地自由化，而没有相互矛盾的解释和历史建构，从而巧妙地消除了LC的各种种族和劳动问题。我在这里辩称，“数字图书馆”或“无墙图书馆”可能会起到限制交流和“信息”的作用，从而在“回归”想象中的过去时增强现有的层次结构。通过寻求超越其过时的计算机记录和繁琐的劳动问题，LC压制了“信息”的社会层面，因为它是一个涉及种族，劳动和民族的历史进程。具有讽刺意味的是，语境知识的减少有可能使图书馆作为国家机构的合法化。

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