not in order to comply with a federal or state mandate, but to comply with human decency.
yes, please
79 Matching Annotations
- Nov 2025
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www.library.ucla.edu www.library.ucla.edu
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20% of the 500,000 Native American artifacts and human remains in their possession
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Any conservator who would prefer not to work on racist materials that are needed for research, exhibit, or digitization will be given the option to pass the treatment on to a colleague. If nobody feels comfortable working on an item, we will look into hiring an outside party to do the work or other negotiated solutions.
Totally fair--BUT, should a religious extremist have the same right, re: wedding cakes and Plan B prescriptions?
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unless the racist material is a priority, the department would prefer not to focus on it
is this heavy handed? rooted in trauma?
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why the material is a priority over other materials
I'm not sure about this one! But I'm probably being defensive!
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indicate if there is obvious racist content, along with mold, insects, or offensive odors.
I appreciate this conflation
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University EDI/DEI (equity, diversity, and inclusion) offices may also provide guidance and support.
Not in this economy
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staff
In my experience, folks with roles outside of curation might have more focused (sometimes narrow?) takes on collections. How can we make selecting democratic and representative when we can't necessarily come to consensus and/or staff may have wildly different politics?
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reservation staff have regular conversations as a department about identifying and responding to racist or otherwise harmful content in their collections
Yes--all staff should get to discuss curation
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rubric prepared for identifying racist materials
What would go in such a rubric?
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“Social Context” section in which the object’s meaning and significance in history is discussed
I bet the MPLP people loved this
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our duty is to people first and objects second
! (what do y'all think about this point?)
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health and well-being of ourselves and our colleagues
that's real
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we must take care not to employ this argument to advocate for the cultural heritage of the oppressor only
Ugh, are people doing that? Is that how the Wisconsin Historical Society's materials are perceived? Are there times when the benefit outweighs the risk of materials being used for evil?
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his discrepancy in staffing has historically been reproduced and magnified in the selection of items that conservators treat, study, and write about
true
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Whose stories are not being told?7
But what about accountability and keeping receipts?
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the curator’s priorities for treatment may change after learning of our observations
Could be a discussion about whose decision-making is prioritized: the curator's, the person doing the labor? There are class issues. Should a conservator be allowed to say no to treat an object that troubles or harms them?
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What context will be provided when it is shown to students in the classroom or exhibited to the public?
But how can you predict?
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We don’t always know how the materials that we treat in the lab will be used, or in what context they will be presented to students, researchers, and library visitors. As conservators, we must identify racist content when we see it and ask questions.
Wow--should that matter? But I guess it does because people can use the materials to create (more) harm
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- Aug 2025
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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the buffalo is regarded as the most dangerous animal to pursue in Africa, let alone the world
Asher Watkins must have been shocked that the animal he was trying to murder was scary and mad
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unprovoked
hmmm
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he was tracking together with one of our professional hunters and one of our trackers
that sound provocative to me
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victim
predator
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- Jul 2022
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Americans
white americans
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library.barnard.edu library.barnard.edu
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Mission Statement
interested also in care, abundance, feminism, multidimensional criticality, warmth
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engaging new forms
old and new
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young women
its population of women, trans men, and non-binary students
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- Aug 2020
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courseworks2.columbia.edu courseworks2.columbia.edu
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browser
Charlotte.
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window
Don't you mean windoe?
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- Jul 2020
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www.roxannemanning.com www.roxannemanning.com
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People judge the black person who achieved these goals as being a “good” black person, someone who did something right.
performed whiteness
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- Oct 2018
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www.rc.umd.edu www.rc.umd.edu
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competitive, game-like
assumes competition is part of gaming
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Like ourselves
Just interesting whom the perceived audience is. Is the "ourselves" the writers, the perceived audience of fellow educators, or...?
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Like ourselves
Students! They're just like us!
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each person will try to reshape the given work so that it is understood or seen in a new way
is this act an annotation? an interpretation? or i guess a deformance that also illuminates an aspect of the text?
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self-identity of a particular text or cultural work
anthropomorphic texts!
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all interpretation is misinterpretation
consider for final project
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alternative narrative possibilities
Like many of us wish/think 21st century America has
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digitalpedagogy.mla.hcommons.org digitalpedagogy.mla.hcommons.org
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Artifact Type: Syllabus Source URL: http://engl165lg.wordpress.com/ Creator: Amanda Phillips (University of California-Davis)
interested
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personally expressive and politically powerful
like zines!
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Source URL: http://www.auntiepixelante.com/twine/
note to self
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http://www.zachwhalen.net/posts/how-to-make-a-twitter-bot-with-google-spreadsheets-version-04
useful for automating tweets?
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Liss LaFleur
Lady-sounding name. See also Fleur Delacour.
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Written while Owens was a digital archivist at the Library of Congress, this tutorial introduces the idea of glitching—intentionally corrupting a digital artifact—as a kind of playful deformance. Such intrusive digital interventions can serve a forensics purpose by exposing underlying metadata, but they can also defamiliarize the digital media in question. Owens walks through the glitching of music and image files. This process could be easily expanded to include other media types, including audiobooks, PDFs, and EPUBs, all very much of interest in a literature classroom.
definitely deformative
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anyone who has played Euchre
who in this class has played euchre?
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learning is not so much the opposite of play as it is zombie play, a jerky, lurching automatic response devoid of vision, passion, and awareness
seems like an overstatement to me
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Learning in higher education is governed by rules though, however arbitrary and make-believe those rules may be.
LOL make-believe rules of higher education.
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the thinking goes,
simplistic, straw person
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play is defined by six key elements: play is voluntary, separate from other aspects of life, uncertain, unproductive, governed by rules, and simultaneously more or less dependent upon make-believe (9-10). When any one of these elements is violated, play is no longer play. It is work.
Note to self: think about in the context of zines. They are voluntary and uncertain. They are not separate, productive, governed by rules, dependent on make believe. But the spirit of this definition feels right.
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allred720fa18.commons.gc.cuny.edu allred720fa18.commons.gc.cuny.edu
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Benito Cereno
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Before
Start of the third Putnam's Monthly installment.
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The
This is where the second Putnam's installation begins.
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spectacle of fidelity
Upon revisiting the text, it seems that there are clues that Delano should or somewhere inside himself did pick up on what was going on. Or perhaps the idea of a liberated slave ship was too ludicrous to take seriously. Delia Steverson shines the lens of the Haitian revolution on the novella,
Immediately recognizing the ship as a slave vessel, Delano reads the unfettered slaves as simply having a trusting master who allows them relative free range on the ship. Delano meets the captain of the San Dominick, Don Benito Cereno, who is in constant companionship with a slave named Babo. Captain Delano cannot make sense of the many strange occurrences aboard the ship, including why the slaves seem to have so much freedom, why Benito Cereno seems to possess the “involuntary victim of mental disorder,” and why Benito Cereno’s crew was so small (Melville 44). It is not until he is attacked by the mutineers that Delano realizes Benito Cereno was not a gracious slave master, but rather a helpless hostage being held captive aboard his own ship.
It's like a turn on The Emperor Has No Clothes. It should be completely obvious that Babo has all the clothes, and yet white colonial ignorance cannot imagine or see the possibility.
Steverson, Delia. “‘Everything Gray’: Polygenism and Racial Perception in Herman Melville’s ‘Benito Cereno.’” The Journal of American Culture; Malden, vol. 40, no. 2, June 2017, pp. 169–77.
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lethargic, somnambulistic character
This description got me curious about Melville's relationship to gothic literature, so I did a search in my (other) library's federated search and found that < melville benito cereno gothic > yielded 583 results.
Citing Sara Mills, Justin D. Edwards draws attention to the us vs. them narrative in Benito Cereno.
"For Melville, I suggest, the coupling of the two forms was possible because they were both filtered through a racialized lens. For instance, the structures of difference that are central to nineteenthcentury travel narratives— the narrative necessity of providing a gap between 'us' and 'them'— can also be found at the heart of Benito Cereno (Sara Mills 23)." Edwards, Justin D.. Gothic Passages : Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic, University of Iowa Press, 2005. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/columbia/detail.action?docID=837041. Created from columbia on 2018-10-06 15:39:04.
He goes on to discuss violence, ignorance, and revolt in the power dynamic between Babo and Delano. That's not strictly gothic, but the elements are not far removed.
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splenetic disrelish
The juicy phrase "splenetic disrelish" also appears in
Family Lectures: Or, a Copious Collection of Sermons on Faith and Practice, Etc. F. C. and J. Rivington, 1815.
“NOTHWITHSTANDING Shoring, FLUMMOX by Emily Abendroth.” Issuu, https://issuu.com/dawnpendergast/docs/abendroth-issuu. Accessed 6 Oct. 2018.
Astrophysics Research Creatine Express Loading Product Results Reviews. http://votacymu.awardspace.com/astrophysics-research.html. Accessed 6 Oct. 2018.
Mazibuko: W(h)Ither the Truth? | Thought Leader. https://thoughtleader.co.za/tracyhumby/2014/05/19/mazibuko-whither-the-truth/. Accessed 6 Oct. 2018. -
By his side stood a black of small stature, in whose rude face, as occasionally, like a shepherd’s dog, he mutely turned it up into the Spaniard’s, sorrow and affection were equally blended.
Delano's reading of the "small black" man's "equal" "sorrow and affection" is suspect as Delano himself in the next paragraph blunders over with sympathy and the desire to help.
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malign evil
Why this redundancy? What would a benign evil look like? From the Oxford Engligh Dictionary, as far back as 1350, [malign] (http://www.oed.com.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/view/Entry/112922?rskey=3OVGlB&result=1#eid) means "Of a thing: evil in nature and effects; baleful, gravely injurious. Of sin: †heinous (obsolete)."
Sorry to use a Columbia proxy, rather than CUNY. I don't know which is my network username/pw. :(
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Chili
I was curious about Melville's spelling of Chili (vs. Chile), so I endeavored to find out if that was a 19th century spelling. Finding articles about the country vs. the pepper proved difficult, until I remembered my Boolean logic. < (chile AND chili) NOT pepper*) >. That didn't help much either, at least not in Oxford Reference. The OED was a fail, too. I tried to trick Google into Booleaning for me: < (chile | chili) -pepper >, but it wasn't having it, so I ended up back where I started: Wikipedia, where the first subheading is Etymology. I find their description plausible and reliably cited:
There are various theories about the origin of the word Chile. According to 17th-century Spanish chronicler Diego de Rosales,[15] the Incas called the valley of the Aconcagua "Chili" by corruption of the name of a Picunche tribal chief ("cacique") called Tili, who ruled the area at the time of the Incan conquest in the 15th century.[16][17] Another theory points to the similarity of the valley of the Aconcagua with that of the Casma Valley in Peru, where there was a town and valley named Chili.[17]
15 "Chile.com.La Incógnita Sobre el Origen de la Palabra Chile". Chile.com. 15 June 2000. Archived from the original on 15 April 2009. Retrieved 17 December 2009 16 Encyclopædia Britannica. "Picunche (people) – Britannica Online Encyclopedia". Britannica.com. Retrieved 17 December 2009. 17 Encina, Francisco A., and Leopoldo Castedo (1961). Resumen de la Historia de Chile. 4th ed. Santiago. I. Zig-Zag. p. 44
Today's version of the Wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chile&oldid=862682987
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epress.trincoll.edu epress.trincoll.edu
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self-publication
What does he mean by "self-publication." Is "vanity press" implied? Amateur? Ego-driven?
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- Sep 2018
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digitalpedagogy.mla.hcommons.org digitalpedagogy.mla.hcommons.org
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genuinely new
Not totally new, right? I'm thinking of library book marginalia, and maybe used book mark-up, as well, per this screen capture of a Columbia Buy Sell Memes offering.
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build community, empower students to speak, and underscore the inherently collective nature of creativity and interpretation
I'll be interested to see how true this is. Or will it just be the same in-class loudmouths (myself included), who are aggressive annotators. Maybe even more aggressive because we're not as conscious of taking up other students' space and time.
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The participatory ethos of social annotation aligns it with the promise of radical democracy
Is that a bit of an overstatement?
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Stephen Duncombe
zine guy!
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faculty.georgetown.edu faculty.georgetown.edu
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failings of the person here presenting them
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coming of democracy reversed the word of command
Whose democracy?
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The Text (if only by its frequent 'unreadability) decants the work (the work permitting) from its consumption and gathers it up as play, activity, production, practice.
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no demagogy is intended here
SERIOUSLY?
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The work is caught up in a process of filiation.
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The Text is not a co-existence of meanings but a passage, an overcrossing
This text sure is.
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paradoxical
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classification (which is furthermore one of its 'social functions)
Okay, yes, back in my jolts of fashion professional/academic wheelhouse. Classification IS a social function and a construct.
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(good) Literature
YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT JUDGING LITERATURE.
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Roland Barthes
Practically like hypothes.is this very scholarly website invites us to weigh in on Barthes FAQ http://www.vipfaq.com/Roland%20Barthes.html
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It would be futile to try to separate out materially works from texts.
Ooh--I've got this sentence! Read Why Zines Matter: Materiality and the Creation of Embodied Community https://barnardzines.livejournal.com/46042.html If you don't have access to the FT hmu.
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The Text is not to be thought of as an object that can be computed.
https://twitter.com/zinelib/status/1046124190842204160 and https://twitter.com/zinelib/status/1046125441906593792
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in the interests of a new object and a new language neither of which has a place in the field of the sciences that were to be brought peacefully together, this unease in classification being precisely the point from which it is possible to diagnose a certain mutation.
The word "classification" jolted my fashion. Seems like this sentence should be in my wheelhouse because classification is decidedly a determination of my jam, but dear dog, I can't. Can I get a translation of the translation please?
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interdisciplinarity
LOL didn't DH invent interdisciplinarity? Or maybe that's multidisciplinarity.
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(the term 'connection' is used here in a deliberately neutral way: one does not decide a determination, be it multiple and dialectical)
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The change
LOL menopause.
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Trans. by Stephen Heath, 1977
I'm finding the text dense. I wonder if that's the original or the translation. Or both!
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