did you ever see a thorn between to roses

The Internet as a space has always interested me, not just because I use it all the time, but because it is such a strange space, a space we’re all familiar with, but contains things one couldn’t even fathom. I wouldn’t say this a kind of mere exoticism of looking at the internet, as in I don’t feel outside or ‘other’ to the internet, because I don’t–I use the internet all the time. I’m a child of the internet. But at the same time I can look at a distance and…read more

Unfortunately this blog post might be more unfocused and disorganized as I tried to go the MOA archives on Friday, but Alissa was not in during the time it was open so I couldn’t look at any of the physical fonds unfortunately and have only had time for a very cursory look through the Eric Parker fonds. This will probably be more like general thoughts/questions I had when looking at the Eric Parker fonds and from reading the articles. 1] Again, it was hard looking at the online Eric Parker…read more

    Pre blog notes: 1] Sorry this is very late, I’ve been behind on some things, not an excuse of course. 2] As we were talking in class about equally archiving and remembering the darker, more offensive parts of our history, I was reminded of a very important (I think) archive I know of called “Without Sanctuary”, both a website (http://withoutsanctuary.org/) and a book. Its contents are of American lynching photography, photographs, many in the form of casual postcards, mainly documenting the lynching of African Americans (and other discriminated groups) across the…read more