"The study of Nogueira’s itinerary demonstrates the need for a history of early modern scholarship that takes into account the ways that early modern politics and state communication systems were connected by learned networks."
'...that early european empires would've fallen apart without.'
"The theme of the conference, “Libraries, Archives, Properties,” was meant to address the looming crisis in the preservation of records of our cultures, mostly printed or written, but also visual and aural. "
Ya know, back in 2009, I was arguing one of the infrastructure things the Obama administration could do would be to expand and convert the LoC into a National Library System and hire a bunch of people to not just scan but OCR, convert and typeset all those old print works into readable and pretty-printed for the screen stuff that would be filed online properly. Toss in scanning of literally everything printed, plus buy up all those old video games, OSes and utility and manuals (and the rights thereof). Once all that stuff was properly converted and filed, it's done more or less forever. Find anything quick and access it quick and quote it quick, and the data mines are wide open.
The Very Smart political people gave me the internet equivalent of a dull-eyed stare and went back to arguing about cutting the deficit and bombing Iran. Could be a brilliant lot... just ain't.
"This article highlights the political valence of historical knowledge that was gathered and distributed throughout the Republic of Letters with emphasis on the code-switching of a scholar who styled himself differently across learned communities depending on his political circumstances, interests, and interlocutors."
I am very tempted to say 'doesn't everybody code switch like that?'
This is far more interesting than it should be... thanks for this!
"The study of Nogueira’s itinerary demonstrates the need for a history of early modern scholarship that takes into account the ways that early modern politics and state communication systems were connected by learned networks."
'...that early european empires would've fallen apart without.'
"The theme of the conference, “Libraries, Archives, Properties,” was meant to address the looming crisis in the preservation of records of our cultures, mostly printed or written, but also visual and aural. "
Ya know, back in 2009, I was arguing one of the infrastructure things the Obama administration could do would be to expand and convert the LoC into a National Library System and hire a bunch of people to not just scan but OCR, convert and typeset all those old print works into readable and pretty-printed for the screen stuff that would be filed online properly. Toss in scanning of literally everything printed, plus buy up all those old video games, OSes and utility and manuals (and the rights thereof). Once all that stuff was properly converted and filed, it's done more or less forever. Find anything quick and access it quick and quote it quick, and the data mines are wide open.
The Very Smart political people gave me the internet equivalent of a dull-eyed stare and went back to arguing about cutting the deficit and bombing Iran. Could be a brilliant lot... just ain't.
"This article highlights the political valence of historical knowledge that was gathered and distributed throughout the Republic of Letters with emphasis on the code-switching of a scholar who styled himself differently across learned communities depending on his political circumstances, interests, and interlocutors."
I am very tempted to say 'doesn't everybody code switch like that?'
elm
like a fish swimming