A Theory of Digital Objects
Jannis Kallinikos, Aleksi Aaltonen, Attila Marton,
Jun 08, 2010
This is an interesting paper that pits the utility and transience of the web against permanence and historicity. Indeed, suggests the author, "The entities and processes that constitute the stuff of social practice are thereby rendered increasingly unstable and transfigurable, producing a context of experience in which the certainties of recurring and recognizable objects are on the wane." Yes, there is that. But when I think of creating a permanent record of my own work, I hesitate to put it in paper, because nobody would ever find it. The historical record will indeed, as the author writes, be viewed through a search engine.
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