Today's A Softer World sums it all up

Today’s A Softer World sums it all up

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In his travels around Australia, EJ Brady started to catalogue ways in which its vast, ‘empty’ spaces might be turned to productive use. A hardy yeomanry armed with the latest science could transform these so-called ‘wastes’, and Brady was determined…

Energy, Pollution, and the Digital Archive

Here’s that post from HONY I mentioned when Michael suggested that we talk about environmental impact: http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/65345059446/im-retired-now-but-i-was-the-ceo-of-the-ny “I’m retired now. But I was the CEO of the NY State Energy Research and Development Authority.” “What’s something about energy that a…

Some things that come to mind for Database Aesthetics

Some things that come to mind for Database Aesthetics

1.) I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, and wasn’t sure whether to post this in Archives/Libraries time, but I guess it is most appropriate as a database art? Anywho, it’s near. Imogen Heap working from a database…

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Processing Post: Poor Doctor Internet

It seems that we cannot escape Borges and his fabulous embalmed water-pitched breaking tame suckling pigs. Funny that! But it is his Funes the Memorious that continuously comes to mind in our analysis of the order of things, from which…

Rethinking Power with Foucault, and Beyond?

Join a round table discussion on 23 October 2013, Wednesday, 6PM-8PM at the The New School for Social Research 80 Fifth Ave., Room G 802, New York City. Speakers include: Frédéric Gros (University of Paris XII) Bernard E. Harcourt (University of Chicago and…

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Processing Post: Library, A Love Story continued

The expanse of the range of crucial services that public library networks provide are not news to me. Why is to others? Especially policy makers and those in charge of distribution of funds? The library has long been the central…

Processing Post: Library, a Love Story

Processing Post: Library, a Love Story

We continue to traverse the history, present, and future of the book and the library and the paradoxical chaos and order which characterize it simultaneously. Motion and mobility as a driving force and aspiration thematic to both libraries and museums…

New York Archives Week, October 6-12, 2013

New York Archives Week, October 6-12, 2013

http://nycarchivists.org/Resources/Documents/2013_ART_NewYorkArchivesWeek_Calendar.pdf

Radical Presence: Archiving Performance Art for the Future

Radical Presence: Archiving Performance Art for the Future

By some work of serendipity, I saw that The NYU Fales Library & Special Collections were hosting an event that sounded fascinating and completely aligned with the themes and issues we are exploring in this class. It was last minute,…