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The New School’s Paradoxical Archive

How a school focused on the future has learned to love its past

December 5, 2018 • by
If an archives is perceived to be a site of retrograde nostalgia whose purpose is to revive conservative, old ideas, then a shadow of suspicion is cast over a university archives, too. The very idea of an archives does not align, even outwardly conflicts, with The New School’s idea of itself. It’s not ...
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The Future of Our Past

Digital archives and the democratization of knowledge

May 18, 2018 • by
Usually, when I tell my students that our course will focus on archives, they almost fall asleep in front of me. In fact, it seems that the mere mention of the word “archive” triggers a yawning reflex. People imagine the archive as a far, distant, dark and dusty space, where ...
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