In my previous post, I began to define what we might mean when we call something an "object" by way of the philosopher Martin Heidegger's term Vorhandenheit. With this neologism, which is translated as the compound present-at-hand, Heidegger articulates an abstract, indifferent, and theory-driven way of relating to an entity that narrowly focuses on its empirical and scientific qualities....
(Un)Dead Links
What good is a dead link? Maybe a dead link is no good at all. After all, the functionality of links lies at the very core of the internet’s navigability. A live link is a path to content; it is a means for users to access the content of a...
2016 Speaker Series
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Object of the Archive, Part I: What is an Object?
This semester, DWRL staff members working in the Digital Archiving Research Area (DARA) have been tasked with exploring the technological, pedagogical, and theoretical intersection of two formidable abstractions: The Archive and the Object. These are vibrantly contested terms, around which significant differences in epistemological and discursive practice turn. Like black...
In the News: The Digital Transgender Archive
Late last week, Dr. K.J. Rawson launched the Digital Transgender Archive, which the Boston Globe has described as "a compendium of historic documents, oral-history transcripts, photographs, and newsletters" that, together, constitute a transgender past. (more…)
Spring 2016 Speaker Series: K.J. Rawson, “The Rhetorical Work of Digital Archives”
Please join the Digital Writing & Research Lab for Dr. K.J. Rawson's lecture, 'The Rhetorical Work of Digital Archives," on Friday February 19 at 3pm. The talk will be held at the Texas Union UNB in room 3.304 (Quadrangle Room). (more…)
Introducing Our Spring 2016 Research Priorities: Digital Archiving and the Object
Archival theories and practices have long been central to scholarship on rhetorical history. With the emergence of technologies in digital archiving, however, and as rhetorical scholars have become involved in the construction of digital archives and exhibits, we increasingly recognize archives themselves as rhetorical entities. (more…)
Introducing Our Research Areas: Digital Archiving
Archival theories and practices have long been central to scholarship on rhetorical history. With the emergence of technologies in digital archiving, however, and as rhetorical scholars have become involved in the construction of digital archives and exhibits, we increasingly recognize archives themselves as rhetorical entities. (more…)