Processing Post: The Future Library
This week definitely provided a nice *disruption* in our readings thus far for this class; theory took the backseat while more concrete examples demonstrated the different trajectories of libraries large and small, public and private (totally not throwing theory under…
Processing Post: Idiosyncratic and Unorthodox Libraries
This week’s readings offered new and fun ways for me to approach the topic of libraries, namely their organization. To begin, the trip to the Morgan Library proved very helpful to this week’s readings because like the libraries discussed, we…
Processing Post 2: Classification
I enjoyed this week’s readings because much like my experiences in cataloging systems, I got lost. Not only in the words themselves, but also the concepts being discussed. Admittingly, I didn’t digest everything fully, and I definitely skipped over some…
Archival Aesthetics: Second Life
Imagine creating nearly all of the content within a world. What would you include? How would you organize the material to not only fit your needs but appeal to the likes of others (assuming you’re considerate of others’ opinions)? Thankfully,…
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Processing Post: One
Simultaneously transparent and concealed, the archive represents a physical space as much as it does an idea, an apparatus of social rule and regulation, both centralized in spirit and decentralized in various spaces, places, and mediums. As Derrida pointed out…
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