A quick update with more details to follow later...
We'll begin next year in Fall & Winter term by undertaking a collaboratory project on the genealogy of 'documentary identification,' 'identification technologies,' and related practices. The range of objects of inquiry include vital registration (birth certificates),
state identification (social security cards and numbers), technologies of identification (the legal name), and other aspects of individual informational accoutrement (medical dossiers, education transcripts, curricula vitae, perhaps even more recent technologies like social media profiles).
We'll meet in week 1 of Fall term to decide on one of the following plans of inquiry:
- Pick a single technology as a collaboratory that we all focus on as a group (with readings each week on that technology) -- maybe even try to co-author something in Winter term on this
- Each pick individual technologies of interest to us and create different individual reading plans so that each week we come to the collaboratory ready to share insights and findings on the genealogy of that technology (this could also be done in small groups)
- Some other plan?
In the meantime, enjoy summer, and may it be productive.
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