Energy and the Archive

This paper looks at ways to think about the relationship between the knowledge that we produce and its social origins without falling into a naïve determinism. The central arguments are that our modes of knowledge discovery and articulation are deeply social: both through the role of energy forms an...

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Main Author: Geoffrey C. Bowker
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Société d'Anthropologie des Connaissances 2017-06-01
Series:Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/rac/2244
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