Paper archives have long been foundational sources of data for humanities scholars–be these materials organized as logs and records or correspondences and various other writings, institutionally produced and preserved or recovered by other means. What are the risks and rewards of digital archives? What are our corresponding responsibilities–as archivists and scholars of archives in the digital era? What makes a digital data archive? What are their ethics in the new digital formats of accessibility and of preservation? Can we revolutionize the burdens that accompany past archives? This seminar addresses these pressing questions of archives in the digital era.

We owe others our language, our history, our art, our survival, our neighborhood, our relationships, … our ability to defy social conventions as well as support these conventions. All of this we learn from others. None of us is alone; each of us is dependent on others.

Syperek and Wade document the plethora of recent curatorial projects that take the sea as a subject, positioning this work as a rich repository of innovative thought and practice. They reflect on the inherent entanglements of art and science, climate and colonialism, humans and nonhumans, space and place, and past, present, and future in various instances of oceanic curating. 

These 9 theses raise questions about what it means to use the signifier “capitalism” to name the economic system money conditions. When we label the totality money mediates “capitalism,” we obscure money’s status as a public utility, make its capacities to serve communal and environmental wellbeing imperceptible. 

I explore how utopian was an extraordinary word that became ordinary, a particular term that became general, and a reference to a physical place that became an idea.

Performance opens up an opportunity to explore gendered experiences of traumatic violations and survival.

Analyzing a performance art piece by Tehching Hsieh and Linda Montano titled "Rope Piece," Vivian Huang reflects on Asian American sociality and life. Using the performance piece, Huang explains documentation as a process that both divulges but also withholds information; she also critiques the idea of Asian inscrutability as a modality of inquiry into Asian and alien sociality in the US. 

In Parts One and Two of this article, I explored Hannah Arendt’s communication with Karl Jaspers about potential recipients of the 1963 Balzan Prize, as well as her correspondence with South African writer Dan Jacobson about James Baldwin and the difference between American and South African struggles for racial equality.