Building society, constructing knowledge, weaving the Web: Otlet's visualizations of a global information society and his concept of a universal civilization

European Modernism and the Information Society: Informing the Present, Understanding the Past

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 127-154

  van den Heuvel, Charles ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

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EID: 85065460097     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315580951     Document Type: Chapter

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