was Re: my email archives
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "archiving." <warschauer>
anyone else archived all their incoming and outgoing emails, <hunsinger>
How do we keep it secure (both in the sense of "private" and in the sense of "safe")? How do we think about it, if at all, right now? That is, I suspect we all have this sense of the "stuff" that we have on our disks and hard drives, but how does that intersect and interplay with how we feel about the box of letters we keep in the closet? Will we encrypt stuff, or keep it open? Will we erase some? <jones>
One day no doubt the world will mourn the loss of my juvenilia. <cubitt>
I doubt the world will mourn, Sean, the loss of your juvenilia, as long as it did not and does not impact the rights of others. Forgive me for crashing in, but a little bird told me I should take time out of my intervention in Nettime (I think I have pitched things about right over there), to check to see what AoIR was doing under the duress of contemporary cultural events and the impact of emergency legislation. I sense unease. This e-mail archive thread reads a little like an annual general meeting of the Intellect and Imagination Temperance Society and I would remind you four of your duties and responsibilities not merely as scholars, but as members of an international intellectual community. After seven or eight years in which questions of archival, catalogue, identity, access and availability of information and knowledge, gender, ethnicity, uneven distributions of information, uneven accumulations of knowledge, new relations of distribution of media and communications and new relations of mediation in a tremendous cultural contest that cast new perspectives on the nature of governance, institution, scholarship, democracy, not to mention an economy led like a pig with a ring in its nose by the mere idea of Internet, youd think wed have got a little further along in an understanding of technology in contemporary culture. What, one wonders, have you all been doing? Yes, I kept all of my files and email communications 1993-present. Saved, time-locked, stored, periodically. I thought this was a simple matter of research scholarship, quite in line with the Social Sciences Methods and Approaches course I took at Goldsmiths College as a requirement in undertaking PhD work. Given the intense contests already apparent in 1993-94 perhaps rather more apparent then than they are now -- around the meanings and governance of the technology, I would have been remiss in my scholarship to not do so.
It was easy to imagine a scenario in which, say, The National Security State employed archives to influence government, commerce and public opinion to help render compliance to the agenda of the National Security State, alternatively imagine a situation in which commercial or alternative interests employed these archives to the same end. Or rather, easy to anticipate the nature of a contest between these interests (its called the pretzel debate apparently) and you, pretty much, have something closely resembling contemporary culture >>>
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