BEYOND FRAGMENTATION: A CRITICAL APPROACH TO HBCU ARCHIVAL RESEARCH
instructor: Mali Collins

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#HBCU #HBCUarchives #HBCUlibraries #libraries #archives #recordkeeping #scraptheory #criticallibrarianship #critlib #critlibrary #archival #Blackfeminist #methodologies #fragmentation #Blackarchives #pedagogy

Amateur archaeologist uncovers ice age ‘writing’ system

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jan/05/amateur-archaeologist-uncovers-ice-age-writing-system

#archaeology #recordkeeping

One of the truly great twitter hashtags was, believe it or not

#museumdocumentation

it doesn't seem to exist here but one has hope !!

#museums #documentation #archives #archivists #records #recordkeeping

Hey #geneology folks! Does anyone here have a favorite… how do I describe this? Physical notebook sheet type of #recordkeeping? I’ve been doing my genealogy all online and digital, but now I’d like to start etching some of the information into a physical form, but from my own hands. (I.e. not a print on demand book.) I’m thinking I might like to do a pretty dry record first - get it all down - and then use that to create something more lovely. Any favorite notebooks or sheets or printables?

heute: Brennenstuhl – No
(Acid-Krautrock-Jazz-Soul / Tonzonen Records)

Spannendes Ding, hab ich neulich auch was drüber berichtet: https://vinyl-keks.eu/brennenstuhl-no/

#vinylreview #vinyl #recordkeeping #vinylporn #vinyllovers #vinylcommunity #reviwed #plattensammlung

Levi-Strauss on the Functions of Writing

…The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. Such, at any rate, is the typical pattern of development observed from Egypt to China, at the time when first emerged: it seems to have favoured the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment. This exploitation, which made it possible to assemble thousands of workers and force them to carry out exhausting tasks, is a much more likely explanation of the birth of Architecture than the direct link referred to above. …

https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/levi-strauss-on-the-functions-of-writing

I’m not sure I can agree with CLS’s assertion that writing enabled slavery (omitted in the above exerpt), but the notion that writing can communicate across time or across a complex organisation, enabling bureaucracy, is asn interesting onee. There’'s a pre-voicing of Arendt’s “banality” observation here as well.

Originally: https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/8e1fa4102f650139e9ed002590d8e506

#writing #ClaudLeviStrauss #Anthropology #recordkeeping #organisation

Levi-Strauss on the Functions of Writing

...The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. Such, at any rate, is the typical pattern of development observed from Egypt to China, at the time when first emerged: it seems to have favoured the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment. This exploitation, which made it possible to assemble thousands of workers and force them to carry out exhausting tasks, is a much more likely explanation of the birth of Architecture than the direct link referred to above. ....

https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/levi-strauss-on-the-functions-of-writing

#writing #ClaudLeviStrauss #Anthropology #recordkeeping #organisation

I'm not sure I can agree with CLS's assertion that writing enabled slavery, but the notion that writing can communicate across time or across a complex organisation, enabling bureaucracy, is asn interesting onee. There''s a pre-voicing of Arendt's "banality" observation here as well.