Reading list

Paul Otlet

• Paul Otlet Monde
• Otlet, Paul, Traité de documentation, Bruxelles, Mundaneum, Palais Mondial, 1934.

Fathers of the internet

Constructing a pre-history of contemporary networking technologies.

• Christophe Lejeune Ce que l’annuaire fait à Internet
• Paul Dourish, Genevieve Bell Divining a Digital Future
• John Johnston The Allure of Machinic Life: Cybernetics, Artificial Life, and the New AI A Bradford Book
• Alex Wright Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age Oxford University
• Charles van den heuvel Building society, constructing knowledge, weaving the web
• Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, Ora Lassila The Semantic Web

Classifying the world

• ShinJoung Yeo, James R. Jacobs Diversity matters? Rethinking diversity in libraries
• Thomas Hapke Wilhelm Ostwald's Combinatorics as a Link between In-formation and Form
• Nancy Cartwright, Jordi Cat, Lola Fleck, Thomas E. Uebel Otto Neurath: Philosophy Between Science and Politics Cambridge University Press
• John Brown, Paul Duguid The Social Life of Information Harvard Business Press
• Nathan Ensmenger The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise MIT Press
• Siva Vaidhyanathan The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System Basic Books
• Markus Krajewski, Peter Krapp Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929 The MIT Press
• Eric de Groller A Study of general categories applicable to classification and coding in documentation; Documentation and terminology of science; 1962
• Paul Otlet L’afrique aux noirs Ferdinand Larcier, Bruxelles

Don't be evil

• Rene Koenig, Miriam Rasch Society of the Query (Reader)
• William Miller Living With Google Routledge
• Matthew Fuller, Andrew Goffey Evil Media MIT
• Ray Kurzweil The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence Penguin
• Lawrence Page, Sergey Brin The Anatomy of a Search Engine
• Steve Levy In The Plex Simon & Schuster
• Dan Schiller, ShinJoung Yeo Powered By Google: Widening Access and Tightening Corporate Control
• ShinJoung Yeo Geopolitics of search: Google vs. China?
• Matteo Pasquinelli Google's PageRank Algorithm: A diagram of the cognitive capitalism and the rentier of the common intellect
• Invisible Committee Fuck Off Coogle
• Dave Eggers The Circle Knopf
• Ippolita Epistemology, ontology and others logoi in digital times
• Matteo Pasquinelli Google’s PageRank Algorithm: A Diagram of the Cognitive Capitalism and the Rentier of the Common Intellect
• Ken Auletta Googled: The end of the world as we know it
• Joris van Hoboken Search Engine Freedom: On the Implications of the Right to Freedom of Expression for the Legal Governance of Web Search Engines Kluwer Law International
• Siva Vaidhyanathan The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry) University of California Press
• Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics The MIT Press

Mons 2015

• Delphine Masset, Manon Letouche Mons 2015, une culture locale et participative ?

Zeitgeist

It includes both century-old sources and more recent ones on the parallel or entangled movements around the Mundaneum time.

• Julie Carlier, "Moving beyond Boundaries: An Entangled History of Feminism in Belgium, 1890–1914," Ph.D. dissertation, Universiteit Gent, 2010. (esp. 439-458.)

• Bambi Ceuppens, Congo made in Flanders?: koloniale Vlaamse visies op "blank" en "zwart" in Belgisch Congo. [Gent]: Academia Press, 2004.

• Conseil International des Femmes (International Council of Women), Office Central de Documentation pour les Questions Concernant la Femme. Rapport. Bruxelles : Office Central de Documentation Féminine, 1909.

• Hendrik Christian Andersen and Ernest M. Hébrard. Création d'un Centre mondial de communication. Paris, 1913.

• Sandi E. Cooper, Patriotic pacifism waging war on war in Europe, 1815-1914. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Unsorted

• Catherine Courtiau, "La cité internationale 1927-1931"
• Françoise Levie Filmer Paul Otlet
• Stéphanie Manfroid Les réalités d'une aventure documentaire
• Jacques Hellemans Paul Otlet (1868-1944), fondateur du mouvement bibliogique international
• Bernd Frohmann Discourse and Documentation: Some Implications for Pedagogy and Research
• Richard P. Saller Patriarchy, Property and Death in the Roman Family Cambridge University Press
• Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Fischetti Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web Paw Prints
• Brett M. Frischmann Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources Oxford University Press
• Ippolita The dark side of Google
• Judy Wajcman Feminism Confronts Technology Polity
• Ian Wilson, Jean-Noel Jeanneney, Teresa Lavender Fagan Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge: A View From Europe ReadHowYouWant.com
• Wouter Van Acker The Analogous Spaces of Paul Otlet (1868-1944)
• Rayward, Warden Boyd, https://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/handle/2142/651 The Universe of Information: the Work of Paul Otlet for Documentation and international Organization], FID Publication 520, Moscow, International Federation for Documentation by the All-Union Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (Viniti), 1975.
• Rayward, Warden Boyd, Universum informastsii Zhizn' i deiatl' nost' Polia Otle, Trans. R.S. Giliarevesky, Moscow, VINITI, 1976.
• Rayward, Warden Boyd, Otlet, Paul, International Organization and Dissemination of Knowledge: Selected Essays, Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1990.
• Judge, Anthony, “Union of International Associations – Virtual Organization – Paul Otlet's 100-year Hypertext Conundrum?”, 2001.
• Sánchez, Zurita, Manuel, Juan, El paradigma otletiano como base de un modelo para la organización y difusión del conocimiento científico, México, El Author, Tesina, Colegio de Bibliotecología, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNAM, 2001.
• Wright, Alex, “Forgotten Forefather”, in Boxes & Arrows, 10 November 2003.
• Ducheyne, Steffen, “Paul Otlet's Theory of Knowledge and Linguistic Objectivism”, in Knowledge Organization, no 32, 2005, pp. 110–116.
• Rayward, Warden Boyd, El Universo de la Documentacion: la obra de Paul Otlet sobra documentacion y organizacion internacional, Trans. Pilar Arnau Rived, Madrid, Mundarnau, 2005.
• Levie, Françoise, L’homme qui voulait classer le monde. Paul Otlet et le Mundaneum, Bruxelles, Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2006.
• Wright, Alex, Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages, Washington D.C., Joseph Henry Press, 2007.
• Heuvel, Charles van den, “Building Society, Constructing Knowledge, Weaving the Web”. in European Modernism and the Information Society – Informing the Present, Understanding the Past, Aldershot, 2008, pp. 127–153.
• Wright, Alex, The Web Time Forgot, The New York Times, 17 June 2008.
• Van Acker, Wouter, “Internationalist Utopias of Visual Education. The Graphic and Scenographic Transformation of the Universal Encyclopaedia in the Work of Paul Otlet, Patrick Geddes, and Otto Neurath”, in Perspectives on Science, Vol.19, nr.1, 2011, p. 32-80.
• Van Acker, Wouter, “Universalism as Utopia. A Historical Study of the Schemes and Schemas of Paul Otlet (1868-1944)”, Unpublished PhD Dissertation, University Press, Zelzate, 2011.
• Van Acker, Wouter, Somsen, Geert, “A Tale of Two World Capitals – the Internationalisms of Pieter Eijkman and Paul Otlet”, in Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire/Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis, Vol. 90, nr.4, 2012.
• Van Acker, Wouter. "Architectural Metaphors of Knowledge: The Mundaneum Designs of Maurice Heymans, Paul Otlet, and Le Corbusier." Library Trends 61, no. 2 (2012): 371-396.
• Wright, Alex, Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age, Oxford University Press, 2014.
• Popova, Maria, “The Birth of the Information Age: How Paul Otlet’s Vision for Cataloging and Connecting Humanity Shaped Our World”, Brain Pickings, 2014.
• Françoise Levie L'homme qui voulait classer le monde
• W. Boyd Rayward The Universe of Information : The Work of Paul Otlet for Documentation and International Organisation Published for International Federation for Documentation
• W. Boyd Rayward Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge
• W. Boyd Rayward Paul Otlet, an encounter
• Wouter Van Acker Hubris or utopia? Megalomania and imagination in the work of Paul Otlet