Hyperdocumentation

About this book The term "hyperdocumentation" is a hyperbole that seems to characterize a paradox. The leading discussions on this topic bring in diverse ideas such as that of data, the fantasy of Big Data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, algorithmic processing, the flow of information and the outstanding successes of disinformation. The purpose of this book is to show that the current context of documentation is just another step in human construction that has been ongoing for not centuries but millennia and which, since the end of the 19th century, has been accelerating. Coined by Paul Otlet in 1934 in his Traite de Documentation, "hyperdocumentation" refers to the concept of documentation that is constantly being expanded and extended in its functionalities and prerogatives. While, according to Otlet, everything could potentially be documented in this way, increasingly we find that it is our lives that are being hyperdocumented. Hyperdocumentation manifests as an increase not only in the quantity of information that is processed but also in its scope, as information is progressively integrated across areas that were previously poorly documented or even undocumented. Cover Half-Title Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction: Existing and Knowing. Between Seeking Information and Seeking Attention I.1. Between “attention war” and “attention whore” I.2. Editorialization and referencing I.3. Chapter structure 1. Hyperdocumentation According to Paul Otlet 1.1. The different levels of hyper in hyperdocumentation 1.1.1. Hyperdocumentation as an extension 1.1.2. Hyperdocumentation as accumulation 1.1.3. Hyperdocumentation as an increase in documentary forms 1.2. Hyperdocumentation as reduction 1.3. Hyperdocumentation as hypertext 1.4. Hyperdocumentation as a new world order 1.4.1. A hyperdocumentation between utopia and dystopia 1.4.2. Between classification and synthesis 1.5. The ultimate perspective of the documentation 2. Hyperdocumentation as a Triumph of Documentality 2.1. A documentary theory of humanity 2.1.1. A philosophical theory of humanity 2.1.2. Homo documentator 2.2. Documentality or social ontology 2.3. Documentality and memory 2.4. Documentation and authority 2.5. A hyperdocumentary era 2.6. A document theory 3. Hyperhuman or Hypermachine? 3.1. Desiring machines? 3.2. Typology of hyperdocumentary machines 3.3. Towards hyperdocumentality? 4. Towards Hyperdocumentary Regimes 4.1. The documentary regime of Otlet’s time 4.2. Changes in documentary regimes 4.2.1. Between memory and knowledge carriers 4.2.2. Hypermediation 4.2.3. Probability regimes 4.2.4. Regimes of confession and conversion 4.2.5. Regimes of monumentality 4.3. Post-Otlet documentation regimes 5. Between Knowledge Indexing and Existence Indexing 5.1. An index question 5.2. The two faces of indexing 5.3. The need for an indexing ethic 5.4. A long history of indexing 5.4.1 Tension among those involved in documentation 5.5. Between documentarity and monumentality 5.6. Which indexation regime? 5.7. Should we stop indexing? 6. Personal Documentation: Between “The Self” and “Myself” 6.1. Renewal of personal documentary practices 6.2. Self-documentation 6.3. Self-demonstration or self-documentation 6.4. Documentary freedom under constraints 6.5. Hypodocumentation or the concept of sousveillance 7. The Hyperdocumentalists of Our Lives 7.1. The hyperdocumentalists of self 7.2. From the found friend to the “caring” lover 7.3. Computing centers or archive centers 7.4. Post-mortem hyperdocumentation 7.5. Post-human hyperdocumentation? 8. Documentation of All the Senses 8.1. Hyperdocumentation as documentation of all the senses 8.2. Beyond the senses? 8.3. Paranormal hyperdocumentation 8.3.1. The hyperdocumentation of the sixth sense 8.3.2. Charles Fort 8.4. Political meaning? 8.5. Indexation of desires 9. Free (or Open?) Hyperdocumentation 9.1. Which hyperdocumentary forms are “open”? 9.2. Documentation as resistance 9.3. Hyperleaks? 9.4. Hyperdocumentary convergence: the OSINT 9.5. Utopia or dystopia? 10. Conclusion: Is it Necessary to Go to San Junipero? 10.1. A continuous confrontation between ancient and modern? 10.2. Between documents and monuments: Promethean vertigo 10.3. Towards an ethical hyperdocumentation, the challenge of moderation 10.4. Preserving the links, nexialism against hyperseparatism Postface: Beyond Otlet: Fragmented Encyclopedism P.1. Back to the future: against, but very close to Paul Otlet P.2. Beyond the Traité and the Krisis P.3. The current documentary laboratory: some characteristics P.3.1. Assemblages for new humanities? P.4. Intelligences always already collective and machined P.4.1. Working “by” and “in” infrastructures: the Open movement P.4.2. The community of works as an incompletion in process of production P.4.3. Relational complexes P.4.4. Ontologies “all the way down” and the question of reclosure” P.4.5. Vertigo IEML as “lingua characteristica universalis” P.4.6. Other approaches and hybridization P.4.7. “There is no path, the path is made by walking”29 P.5. Uncertain area P.6. Against the smothering paste of the homogeneous P.6.1. Onto-ethologies and emergence P.7. “Perplication” in knowledge P.8. Doxic tensions in fragmented Encyclopedism P.8.1. Networks in the digital milieu P.8.2. Figures of the network P.9. Machine interfaces P.9.1. Variations in speed and slowness among encyclopedic pragmatics P.10. Knowledge, thought in the encyclopedism in splintered form P.11. What criteriology for encyclopedic writings? P.12. Boundaries in fragmented encyclopedism: dissensus P.13. Borders being everywhere, the critical scientific work consists in making them evolve towards zones of transformation and creation P.14. Fragmented encyclopedism: a milieu for controversy? P.14.1. From encyclopedism in fragments to encyclopedism of flows and whirlpools References Index Other titles from iSTE in Information Systems, Web and Pervasive Computing