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Sorting things out
Some comments from Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star. A pretty academic (yet extremely pragmatic) book about classification and its affect...
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More Sorting
More comments from from Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star. p.13 Anything consistently called a classification system and treated as such...
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More from Sorting Things Out
More comments from Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star. P.32 Speaking of Information Infrastructure, a good usable system disappears almost...
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Even more from Sorting Things Out
More comments from Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star. p.107 Science is a systematized and classified knowledge of facts. Barriers to...
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Annotated Sorting
More comments from Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star. p.150 Residual categories (“other”) [in a classification system] tend to fix the...
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The only good classification is a living classification
More comments from Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star. p.230 A category can be non-existent until and unless it is socially created – given...
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