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In academia, the archive had been a dominating subject for social scientists studying modernity over the past three decades. Under the influence of philosophers like Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault, the classification and categorization of information came to the fore as a central subject of intellectual inquiry. Museums followed the trend and, over the following decades, started hosting shows devoted to archives. Over the past couple of years, the focus seems to have shifted onto creating interactive and artful interfaces to the archive, with an eye to combining functionality and beauty. http://bit.ly/2vtgiWL http://bit.ly/2vtgiWL+ -- Peterk Dallas, Tx [log in to unmask] Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org “If only there were a massive entity that I were forced to fund to tell me how I should live my life, since I’m so obviously incapable of deciding for myself.” M. Hashimoto Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra