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Taking Stock : Media Inventories in the German Nineteenth Century / ed. by Sean B. Franzel, Ilinca Iurascu, Petra S. McGillen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultures and Practices of Knowledge in History : Wissenskulturen und ihre Praktiken ; 18Publisher: Mnchen ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (XV, 313 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783111059853
  • 9783111061368
  • 9783111060675
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.7/87 23/eng/20241106
LOC classification:
  • HF5681.S8 T35 2024
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tags -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction: Taking Stock -- I Inventorying Techniques and Practices -- 1 Bookkeeping: Form and Metaphor -- 2 Taxing Nature and Culture: Juridical Inventory Practices in Nineteenth- Century Collections -- 3 The Ordering of Technological Objects, circa 1800 -- 4 Card Counting: The Census -- 5 Account Book Factories: Standardizing Blanks -- II Inventories as Tools of Knowledge -- 6 Vasculum (Botanisiertrommel) -- 7 Naturgemälde: Alexander von Humboldt’s Media Inventories -- 8 Four Types of Homeopathic Inventorying -- 9 Ernst Mach’s Inventory Numbers -- 10 An Inventory of Feeling: Ferdinand Karsch and the Matter of Frustration in Early Sexological Writing -- III Inventorying the World -- 11 Inventorying the World: Johann Friedrich Cotta’s Das Ausland -- 12 News Agencies: Instruments of Aggregation in a Disaggregating World -- 13 “Awakened from Kyffhäuser’s slumbers”: German Colonialism’s Invention of Tradition in the Gartenlaube by Means of Inventio, Inventory, and Display -- 14 Silkworms and Labor as “Common Stock” -- IV Making Museums, Managing Estates -- 15 Ludwig Völkel’s Sababurg List: An Inventory of the Public Museum of Art -- 16 Putting a Price on Nature: Specimen Inventories at the Berlin Zoological Museum -- 17 Schinkel’s Lists: An Effort to Put Architecture in Order -- 18 Intellectual Inventories: The Goethean Nachlass -- V Books, Manuscripts, and their Margins -- 19 Karl August Böttiger’s Book Fair Catalogs -- 20 Promptbooks as Inventories of Theatrical Performance and for Cultural History -- 21 The Manuscript Catalog -- 22 Gottfried Keller Doodles on a Protokoll -- VI Literary Inventories -- 23 Ludwig Börne’s Incomplete Index of Typographical Errors -- 24 “Neuer Frühling”: Heine’s Poetic Inventory of Romantic Tropes -- 25 Inventorying the Audible Past: German-Language Recitation Anthologies in the Nineteenth Century -- 26 Bertha von Suttner’s Inventarium einer Seele and the Business of Inventorying Experience Afterword(s) -- Afterword(s) -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The volume examines the proliferation of inventorying models and practices as cultural techniques of knowledge organization and production during the long nineteenth century. While inventories are still broadly treated as raw data and unprocessed source materials, the book shows how they function as complex media formats, intersecting and interfering with other material techniques to produce, store, distribute, organize and process cultural information. How do inventories work against and in dialogue with other media of collection, storage and retrieval such as catalogs, indexes, bibliographies, and archives; what new media configurations do techniques of inventorying enable and how, in turn, are such techniques shaped by the media channels and formats they employ; what is at stake in the critical effort of "taking stock", whether as commercial, bureaucratic, literary, historiographical, or scientific operations; finally, what do such operations tell us specifically about the production and circulation of knowledge in the German nineteenth century?
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tags -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction: Taking Stock -- I Inventorying Techniques and Practices -- 1 Bookkeeping: Form and Metaphor -- 2 Taxing Nature and Culture: Juridical Inventory Practices in Nineteenth- Century Collections -- 3 The Ordering of Technological Objects, circa 1800 -- 4 Card Counting: The Census -- 5 Account Book Factories: Standardizing Blanks -- II Inventories as Tools of Knowledge -- 6 Vasculum (Botanisiertrommel) -- 7 Naturgemälde: Alexander von Humboldt’s Media Inventories -- 8 Four Types of Homeopathic Inventorying -- 9 Ernst Mach’s Inventory Numbers -- 10 An Inventory of Feeling: Ferdinand Karsch and the Matter of Frustration in Early Sexological Writing -- III Inventorying the World -- 11 Inventorying the World: Johann Friedrich Cotta’s Das Ausland -- 12 News Agencies: Instruments of Aggregation in a Disaggregating World -- 13 “Awakened from Kyffhäuser’s slumbers”: German Colonialism’s Invention of Tradition in the Gartenlaube by Means of Inventio, Inventory, and Display -- 14 Silkworms and Labor as “Common Stock” -- IV Making Museums, Managing Estates -- 15 Ludwig Völkel’s Sababurg List: An Inventory of the Public Museum of Art -- 16 Putting a Price on Nature: Specimen Inventories at the Berlin Zoological Museum -- 17 Schinkel’s Lists: An Effort to Put Architecture in Order -- 18 Intellectual Inventories: The Goethean Nachlass -- V Books, Manuscripts, and their Margins -- 19 Karl August Böttiger’s Book Fair Catalogs -- 20 Promptbooks as Inventories of Theatrical Performance and for Cultural History -- 21 The Manuscript Catalog -- 22 Gottfried Keller Doodles on a Protokoll -- VI Literary Inventories -- 23 Ludwig Börne’s Incomplete Index of Typographical Errors -- 24 “Neuer Frühling”: Heine’s Poetic Inventory of Romantic Tropes -- 25 Inventorying the Audible Past: German-Language Recitation Anthologies in the Nineteenth Century -- 26 Bertha von Suttner’s Inventarium einer Seele and the Business of Inventorying Experience Afterword(s) -- Afterword(s) -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index

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The volume examines the proliferation of inventorying models and practices as cultural techniques of knowledge organization and production during the long nineteenth century. While inventories are still broadly treated as raw data and unprocessed source materials, the book shows how they function as complex media formats, intersecting and interfering with other material techniques to produce, store, distribute, organize and process cultural information. How do inventories work against and in dialogue with other media of collection, storage and retrieval such as catalogs, indexes, bibliographies, and archives; what new media configurations do techniques of inventorying enable and how, in turn, are such techniques shaped by the media channels and formats they employ; what is at stake in the critical effort of "taking stock", whether as commercial, bureaucratic, literary, historiographical, or scientific operations; finally, what do such operations tell us specifically about the production and circulation of knowledge in the German nineteenth century?

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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