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<The object reader> 2p Pushing that question even further, some writers consider the borderlines between an object and a thing, asking how matter takes on form, becomes named, recognisable and comprehensible, indeed, how objects are understood as such. 9p Baudrillard ; subject discourse or the non-functional system of objects -> is a cultural and social… Continue reading Unit3 _ Sherry Turkle +Object reader

Latour, B. (1986) Visualisation and Cognition: Drawing Things Together, Knowledge and Society Studies in the Sociology of Culture at Present. JAI press. vol.6 Benjamin, W. (2006) Berlin Childhood around 1900. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. In my understandings, I understood that Benjamin tried to write about reminiscences which go beyond personal dimensions. His… Continue reading Unit3 _ references + thoughts

From Abbie. More critical enquiry into the role of the museum/archive is needed (I know you’ve done it, make sure you evidence it) as you are talking about a very particular type of knowledge.  What are you learning about human’s interaction with objects through these processes? What are you learning about how information is labelling… Continue reading Unit 3 enquiries change & projection 1 feedback

Stuart Hall – Constituting an archive Hall, S. (2001) ‘Constituting an archive’, Third text, 15(54), pp. 89-92. doi: 10.1080/09528820108576903. Archives aren’t true representations of history, they are the representations of those that have been involved or have contributed to it. According to Hall, archives are not impartial or neutral collections of records; rather, they are… Continue reading Unit 3 _ some readings & researches