Bodies, Brains, and Machines: An Exploration of the Relationship between the Material and Affective States of Librarians and Information Systems

dc.contributor.authorAllison-Cassin, Stacy
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-31T20:04:25Z
dc.date.available2020-07-31T20:04:25Z
dc.date.issued2020-01
dc.description.abstractThis paper uses the idea of information networks and the ways librarian bodies are called to serve as a relay within information systems. The founding of librarianship as a profession in the Victorian period during a period of increased bureaucracy and mechanization has had a profound and far-reaching impact on the way women’s bodies and affective states are subsumed into information systems. The history of librarianship is read alongside Kittler’s analysis of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula as a story not about vampires, but about office technology. The connection between women’s bodies and information processing is further traced through an analysis of the film Desk Set. The film is examined for the ways librarian bodies and affective states interact with computer technologies to show that women are encouraged to fully give over brains and bodies to serve as nodes along a library information systems, in effect becoming cyborgs. Finally, contemporary issues around digital systems and affect are examined as a possible means to provide a bulwark against the complete surrender to capitalist information flows.en_US
dc.identifier.citationLibrary Trends 68(3), 409-430.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1559-0682
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lib.2020.0009en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/37655
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJohns Hopkins University Pressen_US
dc.rights.articlehttps://muse.jhu.edu/article/752715/en_US
dc.rights.journalhttps://muse.jhu.edu/journal/334en_US
dc.subjectinformation systemsen_US
dc.subjectcataloguingen_US
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::TECHNOLOGYen_US
dc.titleBodies, Brains, and Machines: An Exploration of the Relationship between the Material and Affective States of Librarians and Information Systemsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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