Casting a measured gaze across the pages before him, August Schleicher turned away, removed his spectacles and rubbed his eyes. A few moments passed and he turned back toward the desk. Setting to work he muttered, “I walk in a field of ruins”. The variants in the texts that lay before him, sprinkled in some… Continue reading Reconciling Variance
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Digitization as Creation
Earlier in the week my colleague Trevor Owens wrote a timely piece on The Signal , “All Objects Are Born Digital Objects”. He does a great job of rethinking the relationship between digitized objects and born digital objects. Trevor complicates the commonly held notion that digitized objects are only copies of analog objects by honing… Continue reading Digitization as Creation
Interdisciplinary Studies
… can be impoverished by once provocative constructs that become cliches, just as a discipline can be narrowed by professional hierarchies, required methodologies, or theoretical conservatism. – Frederick Cooper