Book review: The filing cabinet:a vertical history of information by Craig Robertson

In The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information, Craig Robertson presents a history of the storage and circulation of documents in early-twentieth-century US offices, showing how the filing cabinet reconfigured office architecture, working conditions and the very definition of information. Revealing the unspooling consequences of the adoption of the filing cabinet by US business, this enjoyable and well-presented book will particularly appeal to researchers exploring media materialism, writes Sam di Bella. The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information. Craig Robertson. University of Minnesota Press. 2021.