A philosophical critique of information as relational, evidential, and transformative, grounded in neo-documentation, Heidegger, and Latour.Ronald Day’s Neo-Documentation and the End of Information critiques the modern conception of information as representational “content.” The author proposes a radical reorientation—what he calls a “Copernican Revolution”—in how documents and information are understood. Drawing on neo-documentation theory, Heideggerian p...

A historical-conceptual account of the different genres, technologies, modes of inscription, and innate powers of expression by which something becomes evident.In this book, Ronald Day offers a historical-conceptual account of how something becomes evident. Crossing philosophical ontology with documentary ontology, Day investigates the different genres, technologies, modes of inscription, and innate powers of expression by which something comes into presence and ma...

A critical history of the modern tradition of documentation, tracing the representation of individuals and groups in the form of documents, information, and data.In this book, Ronald Day offers a critical history of the modern tradition of documentation. Focusing on the documentary index (understood as a mode of social positioning), and drawing on the work of the French documentalist Suzanne Briet, Day explores the understanding and uses of indexicality. He examine...