Congratulations Matt - it takes no small amount of talent to make hard drives fascinating to read about!
Posted by Jason at March 17, 2006 09:29 AMMatt,
I like how you enliven the examples from history. You imbue them with the implications for current practice and future directions.
Do you in some other part of the project discuss the question of records devoted to recording the accessing of records? I ask because it seems that the marking of the space(formating)is a kind of copying. I am puzzled as to what might be copied in the process of formating? I find your project fascinating as it steers toward the intersection of inscription, instantiation and installing.
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Two points in my reading of the Text Technology version that look like photons have shirked their duty:
p. 98
trans-historical remember[er] of things past.
p. 101
--[t]he grammatological primitives […]
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All the best with bring more to the fore.