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Archives have become a nexus in the wake of the digital turn. Electronic files, search engines, video sites, and media player libraries make the concepts of “archival” and “retrieval” practically synonymous with the experience of interconnected computing. Archives today are the center of much attention but few agendas. Can archives inform the redistribution of power and(...)
Archive, library and the digital
July 2019
Archives
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Archives have become a nexus in the wake of the digital turn. Electronic files, search engines, video sites, and media player libraries make the concepts of “archival” and “retrieval” practically synonymous with the experience of interconnected computing. Archives today are the center of much attention but few agendas. Can archives inform the redistribution of power and resources when the concept of the public library as an institution makes knowledge and culture accessible to all members of society regardless of social or economic status? This book sets out to show that archives need our active support and continuing engagement.
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Media organize things into patterns and relations. As intermediaries among people and between people and worlds, media shape sociotechnical orders. At the same time, media are organized: while they condition different organizational forms and processes, they, too, are formed and can be re-formed. This intimate relation of media and organizing is timeless. Yet arguably,(...)
Archive, library and the digital
October 2019
Organize
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Media organize things into patterns and relations. As intermediaries among people and between people and worlds, media shape sociotechnical orders. At the same time, media are organized: while they condition different organizational forms and processes, they, too, are formed and can be re-formed. This intimate relation of media and organizing is timeless. Yet arguably, digital media technologies repose the question of organization—and thus of power and domination, control and surveillance, disruption and emancipation. Bringing together leading media thinkers and organization theorists, this book interrogates organization as an effect and condition of media. How can we understand the recursive relation between media and organization? How can we think, explore, critique, and perhaps alter the organizational bodies and scripts that shape contemporary life?
Archive, library and the digital
Being material
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In 'Being Material', artists and technologists explore the relationship of the digital to the material, demonstrating that processes that seem wholly immaterial function within material constraints. Digital technologies themselves, they remind us, are material things—constituted by atoms of gold, silver, silicon, copper, tin, tungsten, and more.
Archive, library and the digital
October 2019
Being material
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In 'Being Material', artists and technologists explore the relationship of the digital to the material, demonstrating that processes that seem wholly immaterial function within material constraints. Digital technologies themselves, they remind us, are material things—constituted by atoms of gold, silver, silicon, copper, tin, tungsten, and more.
Archive, library and the digital
Fantasies of the library
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''Fantasies of the Library'' imagines, and enacts, the library as both keeper of books and curator of ideas as a platform of the future. The book includes an essay on the institutional ordering principles of book collections; a conversation with the proprietors of the Prelinger Library in San Francisco; reflections on the role of cultural memory and the archive; and a(...)
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August 2018
Fantasies of the library
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''Fantasies of the Library'' imagines, and enacts, the library as both keeper of books and curator of ideas as a platform of the future. The book includes an essay on the institutional ordering principles of book collections; a conversation with the proprietors of the Prelinger Library in San Francisco; reflections on the role of cultural memory and the archive; and a dialogue with a new media theorist about experiments at the intersection of curatorial practice and open-source ebooks. The reader emerges from this book-as-exhibition with the growing conviction that the library is not only a curatorial space but a bibliological imaginary, ripe for the exploration of consequential paginated affairs. The physicality of the book- and this book- ''resists the digital,'' argues coeditor Etienne Turpin, ''but not in a nostalgic way.''
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À l’intersection des humanités numériques et de l’archéologie des médias, cet essai propose un projet critique des éditions de CDrom d’auteur des années 1990. En s’appuyant sur une contextualisation socio-technique érudite de ces supports de stockages numériques prometteurs et sur de fines descriptions des interfaces et des parcours au sein de ces univers clos, Gilles(...)
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October 2018
Éditions off-line : projet critique de publications numériques (1989-2001)
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À l’intersection des humanités numériques et de l’archéologie des médias, cet essai propose un projet critique des éditions de CDrom d’auteur des années 1990. En s’appuyant sur une contextualisation socio-technique érudite de ces supports de stockages numériques prometteurs et sur de fines descriptions des interfaces et des parcours au sein de ces univers clos, Gilles Rouffineau livre de précieuses analyses d’objets éditoriaux qui ont marqué la décennie et qui sont aujourd’hui difficilement consultables. Reprise d’une recherche doctorale en sciences de l’art rendue publique en 2006, la démarche scientifique de cet amateur de CDrom éclairé pose la question d’un désir de transmission des données et d’un partage d’expériences contrarié par l’obsolescence technique et le caractère incertain de ces objets culturels.
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À l'ère numérique, le code est au coeur de notre quotidien, il modifie notre rapport au monde et aux autres. « Coder le monde » présente un état de la création digitale contemporaine dans différentes disciplines. Revenant sur l'histoire du code numérique et la manière dont les artistes s'en sont emparés depuis l'avènement de l'ordinateur dans les années 1960, ce livre(...)
Coder le monde : mutations créations
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À l'ère numérique, le code est au coeur de notre quotidien, il modifie notre rapport au monde et aux autres. « Coder le monde » présente un état de la création digitale contemporaine dans différentes disciplines. Revenant sur l'histoire du code numérique et la manière dont les artistes s'en sont emparés depuis l'avènement de l'ordinateur dans les années 1960, ce livre fait apparaître un univers esthétique et critique commun qui questionne notre quotidien entièrement irrigué par les logiques numériques. Les artistes, les musiciens, les écrivains, les architectes, les créateurs de toutes disciplines ont en effet été les prescripteurs et les inventeurs d'une approche alternative du code.
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Future histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune can teach us about digital
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When we talk about technology we always talk about tomorrow and the future - which makes it hard to figure out how to even get there. In "Future Histories", public interest lawyer and digital specialist Lizzie O'Shea argues that we need to stop looking forward and start looking backwards. Weaving together histories of computing and progressive social movements with modern(...)
Future histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune can teach us about digital
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When we talk about technology we always talk about tomorrow and the future - which makes it hard to figure out how to even get there. In "Future Histories", public interest lawyer and digital specialist Lizzie O'Shea argues that we need to stop looking forward and start looking backwards. Weaving together histories of computing and progressive social movements with modern theories of the mind, society, and self, O'Shea constructs a "usable past" that can help us determine our digital future.
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Over the past fifty years, preservation policy has evolved very little, despite escalating accusations that landmarking and historic districting can inhibit affordable housing, economic development, and socioeconomic diversity. The potential to understand these dynamics and effect positive change is hindered by a lack of data and evidence-based research to better(...)
Preservation and the new data landscape
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Over the past fifty years, preservation policy has evolved very little, despite escalating accusations that landmarking and historic districting can inhibit affordable housing, economic development, and socioeconomic diversity. The potential to understand these dynamics and effect positive change is hindered by a lack of data and evidence-based research to better understand these impacts. One of the biggest barriers to preservation research has been the lack of data sets that can be used for geospatial, evidence-based, and longitudinal analyses. This first book in the series ''Issues in Preservation Policy'' explores the ways that enhancing the collection, accuracy, and management of data can serve a critical role in identifying vulnerable neighborhoods, understanding the role of older buildings in economic vitality and community resilience, planning sustainable growth, and more.
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En plein air — painting outdoors — traditionally describes the impressionist revolt against the studio. This book compiles texts by media scholars, scientists, artists, anthropologists and theorists exploring the concept of en plein air in terms of the digital, a realm with ever-evolving boundaries.
En plein air: ethnographies of the digital
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En plein air — painting outdoors — traditionally describes the impressionist revolt against the studio. This book compiles texts by media scholars, scientists, artists, anthropologists and theorists exploring the concept of en plein air in terms of the digital, a realm with ever-evolving boundaries.
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L'auteure analyse les codes et les usages des membres de communautés d'internautes amateurs de produits Apple. Elle montre que l'imaginaire déployé découle d'une volonté de la marque de créer un univers technologique au sein duquel les attentes et les rêves des clients sont comblés par une offre de produits informatiques.
Les Fans d'Apple : enquête sur les réseaux sociaux
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L'auteure analyse les codes et les usages des membres de communautés d'internautes amateurs de produits Apple. Elle montre que l'imaginaire déployé découle d'une volonté de la marque de créer un univers technologique au sein duquel les attentes et les rêves des clients sont comblés par une offre de produits informatiques.
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