Protected: The Ashbery Archives [and digitizing poetry through database]
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APPLICATION: RECOMPOSITION AND THE DATABASE
A bit of a sprawling post. I begin with a theoretical discussion where I also provide some more context for Focault’s arguments, and then proceed with some examples of forms and practices that I believe could be referred to as…
“Databasifying” poetry [A quick blurb for Tuesday]
Sorry all for the delay, I had a quick (not so quick) confusion with logging in info. For tomorrow’s presentation, I’m planning on exploring the idea of the database as an infrastructure that is increasing used to contain fields of…
Application: The Informal Ontology of Heavy Metal
I became distinctly aware of “Heavy Metal” at eight, when my father threw my White Zombie tape out the driver’s side window of his car. His explanation was that he did not want his son listening to the “Devil’s music” (to be…
Application: Cataloging and ordering the Archive With Taryn Simon
These submarine telecommunication cables extend thousands of miles across the Atlantic Ocean before reaching this endpoint in Avon, New Jersey. They transmit as many as 60 million simultaneous conversations. “There’s a humor because the cables are so important, yet they look so…
Application: The archival impulse and design practice – Eliot Noyes
Eliot Noyes (1910-1977) significance as a leading figure in the 20th century American design has been cemented by recent academic work that focuses particularly on his time first as consultant and then head of the IBM Design Program from…
APPLICATION – Robert Smithson, Studioli, and Curiosity Cabinets
Although the work of Joseph Cornell is often cited as a precise articulation of the rhetorics of display that comprise the studioli, curiosity cabinets, and wunderkammern of the Renaissance, Robert Smithson’s “non-sites” seem to best express the concept of time…
Application – Roque Ruiz/Cloudberry Records/Indiepop Archives
Roque Ruiz is an indiepop enthusiast: he is a collector and blogger who runs his own record label celebrating the indiepop genre – Cloudberry Records. I’m going to focus on three components of the indiepop “archive” with an interview I…
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