Lisa Gitelman

New York University

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Rethinking Attachment

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Lisa Gitelman New York University

June 29, 2010
3 comments

Rethinking Attachment History is made when archives accession and “process”—as it is called—records of interest. One of the first steps in processing any collection is the removal of items hazardous to the records themselves. For the most part this means ...
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What Are Books?

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Lisa Gitelman New York University

December 02, 2009
5 comments

What Are Books? Curator's Note Thank you, Elizabeth and Hollis, for organizing this discussion. Your title, “Books as Screens” is a terrific provocation. It recalls for me Jacques Derrida’s idea of the future anterior: “By carrying us beyond paper,” ...

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Re: What Are Books?

information vs. tactility

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Lisa Gitelman New York University

Friday, December 4, 2009 — 7:07 pm
Hi Kathleen-- Happily I think the functions of books are so varied and so multiple that there will always be plenty of need for the affordances that printed books offer and the ones that ebooks do. Nor do information and tactility always work as separable ...
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Re: The Selling of Bookselling

big boxes

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Lisa Gitelman New York University

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 — 3:54 pm
Hi Ted. Thanks for this. I'm a fan of your book, but I guess I have a question about your final points here. While I appreciate that the contrasts between independents and big box booksellers may at times be overdrawn (part of a romantic ideology tha ...
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Re: The Selling of Bookselling

fruit

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Lisa Gitelman New York University

Thursday, December 3, 2009 — 2:58 am
I'm afraid I'd still resist this idea. Sure, B&N and Amazon are different pieces of fruit, but, well, fruit is fruit. The fact that one giant corporation sells books and stuff and the other 'just' sells books isn't astounding ...