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I am an associate professor at the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University. My research is in the philosophy, history, politics, and culture of information, documentation, knowledge, and communication in the 20th and into the 21st centuries in the U.S. and Western Europe and in the discipline of Library and Information Science. The approach that I take is that of Critical Information Theory (also called, 'Critical Information Studies'). In this approach I use rhetorical, conceptual, and historical analyses in order to explain the social, cultural, and political production of privileged concepts and instances of information, knowledge, and understanding. I wrote The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power. I co-translated into English and co-edited the mid-twentieth century French documentalist Suzanne Briet's book, What is Documentation? With Claire McInerney I co-edited Rethinking Knowledge Management: From Knowledge Objects to Knowledge Processes. My articles often appear in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. I have also done research on Italian autonomist Marxist movements of the 1960s and 1970s up until today. Last, I have written on the relation of information and knowledge to poetics and conceptual and visual art. |
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