Document (#35258)

Author

Bernstein, J.H.

Title

Nonknowledge : the bibliographical organization of ignorance, stupidity, error, and unreason: Part one

Source

Knowledge organization. 36(2009) no.1, S.17-29

Year

2009

Abstract

To the extent that one can acquire knowledge through the reading of documents, it may be said that documents transmit knowledge. But what would be the opposite of knowledge? Does it have a legitimate role in library collections? Can it be broken down into categories or domains? How would it be found? Does the opposite of knowledge (let us call it nonknowledge) raise any special problems in cataloging, classification, and indexing? What kinds of subject headings for example, would apply to it? Can we find a conceptual framework with which to comprehend, classify, and retrieve it? This two-part essay aims to identify and articulate the rather paradoxical problems inherent in the organization not of knowledge (see Hjørland 2003) but of nonknowledge. Beginning with theoretical problems about modeling a paradigm of nonknowledge as the opposite of knowledge and extending it to encompass negative counterparts of phenomena related to knowledge, it continues by addressing practical questions in the organization of and access to nonknowledge in libraries, and progresses with an exposition of the categories of nonknowledge. Part one of the essay ends with a review of the concept of stupidity. Part two picks up the discussion with expositions of the remaining areas of nonknowledge. The essay concludes with observations on differentiating between works about nonknowledge and those that disseminate nonknowledge and the implications of nonknowledge for library services.

Content

Vgl. unter: http://www.ergon-verlag.de/isko_ko/downloads/ko3620091b.pdf.

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