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Memory practices in the sciences

by Geoffrey C. Bowker

The ways we hold knowledge about the past shapes how we tell stories about it. Bowker looks at the relation of our information structures to our information and maintains that over the past 200 years information technology has converged with the nature and production of scientific knowledge.

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?