Apr 21, 2015
What happens when contexts collide, overlap, tangle—or simply drift past one another as those who actively define a term by virtue of engagement with its subject remain blissfully unaware that others are writing new definitions elsewhere, to divergent effects?
I recently published an essay—"Another ‘C’ Word: On Content and the (Techno) Curatorial"—on digital, linguistic, and curatorial intersectionality for Bard College's Center for Curatorial Studies' Red Hook Journal; it begins with Raymond Williams's masterpiece, "Keywords," and traces its way to the NSA's XKEYSCORE computer program, which is utilized by its clandestine surveillance program. Have a read, if you please.