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Global Knowledge in the Global City According to Paul Otlet’s Twin Utopias

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Paul Ghils

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

transdisciplinary journal of engineering and science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1949-0569

DOI - 10.22545/2015/00064

Subject(s) - polity , documentation , order (exchange) , focus (optics) , world order , political science , work (physics) , first world war , sociology , epistemology , law , engineering , computer science , humanities , philosophy , business , politics , mechanical engineering , physics , optics , finance , programming language

T his paper discusses some of the philosophical tenets underlying Paul Otlet’s work before and after World War I. A Belgian internationalist and documentalist, he anticipated the hyperlinked structure of today’s world wide web and designed a universal documentation system to integrate all branches of knowlege. This comprehensive structure was meant to be the central focus to rule a world city representing a new world polity, which would in turn order international relations around a “scientific goverment”.

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