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Mobility, circulation, and constraint

First post and replies | Last post by Evanghelia Stead, 2 years ago

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In the Closing remarks, above, Barbara invites us to consider the "intimate dance between mobility, circulation, and constraint" as a recurrent theme in the magazines, and critical approaches, explored in Future States. To open our plenary discussion, here is Barbara's question: What approaches can assist us in attending both to mobility and constraint, equally, and in their relation?

By Tim Satte...

2 years ago
Thank you, Barbara, for pointing out some key ideas and questions. In my own work, I certainly think a lot about the meaning of "constraint" and I see the popular periodical as a mechanism for mobility through the creation of stories and essays that stimulate and invite the readers to fantasize. Looking at this tension (being stuck and wanting to move), I think that fantasy can acquire positive connotations, which are not negative escapism but rather intellectual mobility. I like to think of the periodical as a medium that can move within nationalist and dictatorial constraints.

By Antonella...

2 years ago
Hello, everybody, and sorry to join in late (as the saying goes in French, comme les carabiniers, the carabiniers, i.e. police-customs officers, being always late, not that I fancy being one of them, but I would have loved to participate earlier…). A few thoughts on Barbara Green's insightful comment on the inspiring parallel between periodical studies on one hand, space/architectural/oceanic studies on the other. The first two strike me as being a consequence of the way print culture (books and periodicals) has been repeatedly related to buldings over time. This may be through terminology (...

By Evangheli...

2 years ago
Thank you, Barbara, for drawing attention to Circulation, a key term for many of us, and the methodological questions it raises. We have addressed some of these issues in L’Europe des revues II. Réseaux et circulation des modèles [The Europe of Reviews II. Networks and the Circulation of Models] (Paris, PUPS, 2018, 42 contributions, 985 p., 150 ill.]. The volume is in French and bulky, but I hope useful. In dealing with some of the issues, particularly how to fathom Circulation, we had to address Pierre Bourdieu’s famous theory of fields, a model of description relevant when it comes to domi...

By Evangheli...

2 years ago
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On Digitization

First post and replies | Last post by Evanghelia Stead, 2 years ago

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The future of conferences

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Questions of Method

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The nearly carbon-neutral conference

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Questions of Preservation

First post and replies | Last post by Michel Hockx, 2 years ago

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Related to many of the papers presented here is the question of preservation. Digitization is great, but who decides what gets digitized what does not? To what extent does digitization result in prioritizing certain print runs or certain editions over others? In my own field, the digitization efforts in China have been so extensive that it is nowadays very rare for any young scholar of early twentieth-century Chinese magazines to have ever held the originals in their hands, to know how big or small they were, or what the paper they were printed on felt like. How are other countries/governments...

By Michel Ho...

2 years ago

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