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  • Re/Marks on Power

    How Annotation Inscribes History, Literacy, and Justice

    by Remi Kalir ...
    An interdisciplinary exploration of annotation that shows how this participatory act marks public memory, struggles for justice, and social change.Annotation—the seemingly simple act of marking a text—is often diminished as a marginal practice. It is prohibited in physical objects and considered irrelevant to social and political concerns. But what if annotation were reimagined as a critical and ... Read more

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  • Annotation

    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    An introduction to annotation as a genre--a synthesis of reading, thinking, writing, and communication--and its significance in scholarship and everyday life.Annotation--the addition of a note to a text--is an everyday and social activity that provides information, shares commentary, sparks conversation, expresses power, and aids learning. It helps mediate the relationship between reading and ... Read more

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    Who are computer hackers? What is free software? And what does the emergence of a community dedicated to the production of free and open source software--and to hacking as a technical, aesthetic, and moral project--reveal about the values of contemporary liberalism? Exploring the rise and political significance of the free and open source software (F/OSS) movement in the United States and Europe, ... Read more

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  • The Princeton Guide to Historical Research

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  • We Are Data

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