The democratic culture of the Archivo is one where history, condensed in the archives, is proactively oriented toward justice through acts of exposure, yes, but moreso through the construction of structures of accountability, of justice, even in a political context where those structures are regularly frustrated by corruption, cronyism, and fear.
Who is to blame when a citizen sues his own city over air pollution? According to Reuters, we will soon find out in China.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about the conference was the very question of measuring virtue. Who is asking this question and why now?
![]()
Literary theories from the radically deconstructive to the deeply historicist have long interrupted our reading experiences, but they have done so within the bounds of close-reading liturgies. Digital humanities violates this consummate exhortation of the practice of Literature. It is the new heresy.
![]()
Why did GDP become so popular and so widespread, and why are so many people critiquing it today?
![]()
Never before has it been so fashionable to be against numerical thinking.