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    This document discusses the history of media storage devices and how they have shaped our understanding of knowledge over time. It describes the evolution of libraries and information storage from ancient books and manuscripts to modern digital archives and automated storage systems. Key developments mentioned include Paul Otlet's Mondotheque concept of a centralized world library, the earliest public libraries in the 15th century, and new technologies like automated retrieval systems that are reshaping modern library design.

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    Intellectual Furnishings: Media Storage Devices As Epistemic Structures

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    Intellectual

    Furnishings

    Media Storage
    Devices as
    Epistemic Structures

    Shannon Mattern
    The New School
    wordsinspace.net
    @shannonmattern

    Mark Dion, Harbingers of the Fifth Season


    @ James Cohan Gallery

    Yales Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    Thomas Demand, Archive, 1995

    Miniature showing chair and five-legged table, mid-10th century;


    Paul Otlets Mondotheque

    Bruno Rainaldis Sapiens Bookcase;


    Albrect Drer, St. Jerome in His Study, 1514

    Malatestiana Library, Cesena, Italy, 1452

    Samuel Pepyss
    Bookpress,17th c.

    Etienne-Louis Boulle, proposal for Bibliothque du Roi, 1785

    Henri Labrouste,
    Bibliothque
    SainteGenevive,
    Paris, 1850

    Bibliothque nationale, Paris, 1875

    Huntington, IN, Carnegie Library Service Desk

    Cincinnati Public Library

    University of Chicagos Mansueto Library,


    Automated Storage

    David Garcias Archive Series;


    Mark Dions Aviary (Library for the
    Birds of Massachusetts), 2005

    Thank you.

    @shannonmattern

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