Marlene Manoff

Researcher/writer - Digital Culture & Theory, Library & Archival Studies. Builder of collages. Former librarian (MIT).

[Knowledge Commons @KCommons_org]

We're thinking digitally with today's #ResearchSpotlight! This conference paper from @marlenemanoff thinks about archival paradigms in an age of technology, digital materiality, and data. Take a look at it here, and explore more of Manoff's work in CORE! https://t.co/E0uF1j5htK

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I just posted "Archival Theory in the Age of the Machine" on @humcommons https://t.co/w6VdhhDtRF

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The US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts | Brewster Kahle https://t.co/WCTayNNnY5

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The ongoing work of combatting archival silence
https://t.co/Fqu8DUGx0S

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Publishers Want to End How Libraries Lend Books Online by Andrew Bauld https://t.co/MKsCJlgyJY

[Verso Books @VersoBooks]

What's going on with Giorgio Agamben?

@bratton, author of The Revenge of the Real, discusses Agamben's COVID denialism, biopolitics, and philosophy's failure in responding to the pandemic.

https://t.co/ZFUGbLbS0z

[Eileen Clancy @clancynewyork]

@elizabetheyale @MarleneManoff, you're both cited in this–rounding out archives' historical and theoretical background. And, @doylekate @kirstenweld, you two are cited on (obvs) contemporary archives.

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Is It Time to Abolish Museums? via @thenation https://t.co/SIPsdpYqef
This review makes some interesting observations about the constraints of museums vs. libraries under capitalism

[Alyson Vaaler @asvaaler]

Fun to see scholars reading our work and looking at how we analyzed their scholarship in syllabi

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Nice work:
https://t.co/XoHRE7yiJe

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Of the 6 essays in LIS journal most frequently appearing in course syllabi, mine https://t.co/vZQ4TmUeRS is one of two written by an actual librarian https://t.co/eoAUnJjnLF And the other one was written in 1947.

[Eileen Clancy @clancynewyork]

Last night, in response to a professor asking Twitter for short-form, synthetic texts on the digital and archiving, I compiled a few favorites. Sharing this short thread for others pulling together syllabi.

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@BiellaColeman @loriemerson @mkirschenbaum @MarleneManoff does masterful syntheses in the realm of the digital and archives. Here are a few:

Pre-pub version is in the thread. Several other articles can be downloaded from her @humcommons profile too.
https://t.co/62KwrR8n21

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[Eileen Clancy @clancynewyork]

@BiellaColeman @loriemerson @mkirschenbaum @MarleneManoff @humcommons I esp. love this one. "Archive and Database as Metaphor: Theorizing the Historical Record."
https://t.co/ZUn7Aaf3GN

Here's her book chapter: "Mapping Archival Silence: technology and the historical record."
https://t.co/iYv5HAQYnl

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A massive mural featuring 20,000 of Trump's lies has been installed in Soho https://t.co/uzZjbzrNph

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My review of "The Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information" on @humcommons CORE https://t.co/LDBNSHjWna via @humcommons

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How Libraries Can Save the 2020 Election https://t.co/G0gkhrA9SL

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https://t.co/I8fesBOVbI