“…Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Remembering "Information" European Documentation: Paul Otlet and Suzanne Brier Information Theory, Cybernetics, and the Discoure of "Man" Pierre L,y and the "Virtual" Heidegger and Benjamin: The Metaphysics and Fetish of Information Conclusion: "Information" and the Role of Critical Theory Notes Works Cited Index.…”

“…The five essays of volume II emphasize the historical relativity of social welfare institutions and argue against all developmental metaphysics."…”

“…Boyd Rayward -- Understanding the information domain : the uneasy relations between sociology and cultural studies and the peculiar absence of history / Frank Webster -- On the cultural and intellectual context of European documentation in the early twentieth century / Michael Buckland -- A tale of two narratives : prolegomena to an alternative history of library and information science / Steve Fuller -- The role of facts in Paul Otlet's modernist project of documentation / Bernd Frohmann -- Ferdinand Vander Haeghen's shadow on Otlet : European resistance to the Americanized modernism of the Office international de bibliographie / Pieter Uyttenhove and Sylvia Van Peteghem -- Towers and globes : architectural and epistemological differences between Patrick Geddes's Outlook towers and Paul Otlet's Mundaneums / Pierre Chabard -- Building society, constructing knowledge, weaving the web : Otlet's visualizations of a global information society and his concept of a universal civilization / Charles van den Heuvel -- Networking knowledge before the information society : the Manchester Central Library (1934) and the metaphysical-professional philosophy of L.S. Jast / Alistair Black -- Documentation and utopia : Fabian anticipations of the information society / Alistair S. …”