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JENKINSON

Can we, faced with these modern accumulations, leave any longer to chance the question what Archives are to be preserved? Can we on the other hand attempt to regulate them without destroying that precious characteristic of impartiality which results . . . from the very fact that their preservation was settled either by pure chance […]

Theorizing the Queer Archive…

http://enculturation.net/files/QueerRhetoric/queerarchive/theory.html For many scholars of LGBT and queer history, the archive has become an important source not only of information but also of theorizing about queer experience and possibility. As Charles Morris writes, queer archives show us how “queer lives, past and present, are constituted by voices that swell with the complex measures of our […]

On the Virtues of Preexisting Material | Contents Magazine

http://contentsmagazine.com/articles/on-the-virtues-of-preexisting-material/ Contents MagazineEXPLORE On the Virtues of Preexisting Material by Rick Prelinger for Issue № 5 Since symbolic representation got traction and rendered itself permanent, we’ve had to live in an appropriated world. And for much of that time people have tugged back and forth on chains of origin and derivation. Sometimes appropriation is in vogue, other times and places […]

On the liberation movements archive at Fort hare

RT @MziwamadodaKond: On the liberation movements archive at Fort hare – Opinions – Archival Platform http://t.co/5kK0SFOA via @the_archive In 1992, the Centre for Cultural Studies which started as a Centre for Xhosa Literature, attached to the faculty of Arts at University of Fort Hare, took the initiative through the office of the Vice Chancellor of […]

El archivo con los secretos de los regímenes militares latinoamericanos

22 dic 2012 23:53 GMT Simon Watts BBC Martín Almada llevaba 15 años buscando documentos para probar que había sido torturado por el régimen militar de Alfredo Stroessner en la década de 1970 y que su esposa había sido forzada a oir las grabaciones de sus sufrimientos. Tres años después de la caída de Stroessner, […]

El celular como herramienta educativa en África

http://www.etcetera.com.mx/articulo.php?articulo=15397 12 de octubre, 2012etcétera El celular como herramienta educativa en África Las telecomunicaciones han transformado a Nigeria.Del continente africano, Nigeria cuenta con 100 millones de líneas telefónicas móviles, según cifras de la Comisión de Comunicaciones de ese país.Pero lo sorprendente es que la telefonía celular está sirviendo para capitalizar beneficios para los habitantes de […]