Palmer and Malone examine representations of women in classification structures, which are “artifacts of a society’s intellectual history” that “reveal commonly held beliefs and assumptions” (179). They show how subject headings can be temporary in nature and can depend upon and influence relationships between published knowledge and organization and retrieval of that knowledge. They trace [...]
Reading Stephen Paling’s article on the application of material rhetoric in classification theory and his concept of a Classificatory horizon makes me feel like I’m definitely on the right track, and it’s providing me with some solid fundamental theories.
Material rhetoric here concerns “the accretions, from prefaces to classificatory marks, that are attached to texts and [...]
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I really am going to use this for my studies….I think it’s really interesting to watch how people use this….what tags they assign, how they communicate, etc.
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