No James Bond. No Dr. Who. No PM. Has England ever played a football game under such uncertainty? Go the Black Stars! (tomorrow).
Craig Robertson
@craigrobertson.bsky.social
thinking about the work needed to make paper work as paperwork; histories of the passport and filing cabinet https://bit.ly/2RMo1Qa; from Aotearoa; part-time Chris Knox biographer
No James Bond. No Dr. Who. No PM. Has England ever played a football game under such uncertainty? Go the Black Stars! (tomorrow).
New Zealand have never won a game at the Word Cup but in 2010 they were the only unbeaten team (3 draws in group play; Spain won the final but lost a group game).
Love this story from Craig Robertson's Chris Knox bio about how an Auckland punk band learned to play "Anarchy in the UK" by taping the short bits that aired in a news segment off of the TV and just playing those parts. (Try to explain this to a young person today haha)
I said I'd write a few words about Craig Robertson's much-anticipated Chris Knox bio, which I love. These are personal reflections on what will likely be the definitive history of a man who changed indie/alt music globally opdiner.substack.com/p/cause-when... #aotearoa @audioculturenz.bsky.social
'Cause, when it all comes down to dust
Can I say that Craig Robertson's bio of Chris Knox is anticipated? It is, and it's arrived.
opdiner.substack.com
In hindsight not a great idea to have your hobby be writing a book when your day job is writing books but a decade in the making my bio of Aotearoa NZ musician Chris Knox is coming out in a few months.
Philip Matthews@secondzeit.bsky.social · last yr.What a year for the legends of NZ music. The Don McGlashan doco. The Shayne Carter doco. And now the Chris Knox biography, out in Oct. aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/chris-knox/
What a year for the legends of NZ music. The Don McGlashan doco. The Shayne Carter doco. And now the Chris Knox biography, out in Oct. aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/chris-knox/
Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly
The story of the man, the music, the art, the attitude.
aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz
"Not This Way- Knot This Way!" Internal GPO poster advising on the correct knotting method. Unknown artist, September 1964. Ref POST 110/1569, Royal Mail Archive
Some more background on the history of passports & free Black people pre 14th Am. States could issue passports & abolitionists exploited this to use ppts to argue for citizenship. And while numbers are low the State Dept did issue more than 2 passports (1)
I don't know why I hadn't heard before about Jan Banning's Bureaucratics project — documenting the material culture of civil administrations in Bolivia, China, France, India, Liberia, Russia, the United States, and Yemen janbanning.com/2022/07/01/b...
As many of you know Jonathan Sterne is in hospice. If you would like to send a message to Jonathan and Carrie please send an email to heyjonandcarrie@gmail.com Carrie is receiving these messages and sharing them with Jonathan
If a passport is an ID document for citizens you don’t need to include gender. But a passport has always been a tool to manage citizenship & behavior of citizens that’s why it has a gender marker. (see quotes) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
Transgender Americans Challenge Trump’s Passport Policy in Court
The A.C.L.U. filed a lawsuit after the president’s administration stopped issuing passports that reflect the gender identity of transgender and nonbinary people.
nytimes.com
If a passport is an ID document for citizens you don’t need to include gender. But a passport has always been a tool to manage citizenship & behavior of citizens that’s why it has a gender marker. (see quotes) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
Transgender Americans Challenge Trump’s Passport Policy in Court
The A.C.L.U. filed a lawsuit after the president’s administration stopped issuing passports that reflect the gender identity of transgender and nonbinary people.
nytimes.com
Dirt/Night Gallery's books of assorted iPhone notes: the 21st-c version of the epistolary novel - meets - commonplace book - meets- critical edition (considering a lot of iPhone notes are *drafts* of things people bang out cathartically but never send :) nightgallery.metalabel.com/notes?varian...
Notes
Notes is the first book collaboration between Dirt and Night Gallery. A tribute to the humble iPhone note, the collection features 100 phone notes from 100 creative contributors. Ranging from packing ...
nightgallery.metalabel.com
Doesn't this feel familiar? @craigrobertson.bsky.social writing on the dominance of the passport as a governing technology (and why many of us fear online age identity verification is a trojan horse w/ implications for all internet users).
Offices look different now than they did a few years ago, which is to say many of them are a lot emptier. But, other than humans, something else has disappeared from the modern office space: filing cabinets.
How did filing cabinets revolutionize data storage? - Marketplace
Craig Robertson, a media historian at Northeastern University, is the author of "The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information."
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@marketplaceapm.bsky.social asked me to talk filing cabinets for their new series on short takes on overlooked tech www.marketplace.org/2024/12/09/f...
How did filing cabinets revolutionize data storage? - Marketplace
Craig Robertson, a media historian at Northeastern University, is the author of "The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information."
marketplace.org
@marketplaceapm.bsky.social asked me to talk filing cabinets for their new series on short takes on overlooked tech www.marketplace.org/2024/12/09/f...
How did filing cabinets revolutionize data storage? - Marketplace
Craig Robertson, a media historian at Northeastern University, is the author of "The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information."
marketplace.org
As they say there’s always a local angle: for identification technology scholars
oooooooo! Nick Popper's book on #earlymodern archives coming up! 🗃️ press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Specter of the Archive
An exploration of the proliferation of paper in early modern Britain and its far-reaching effects on politics and society. We are used to thinking of ourselves as living in a time when more informa...
press.uchicago.edu
And Diana Kamin is now here - @dianakamin.bsky.social
Craig Robertson@craigrobertson.bsky.social · 3y agoDiana Kamin’s fantastic book is out! I happily wrote a blurb “In this remarkable book, Kamin shows how 20thC social networks of paper & touch shaped today's digital image economy. An invaluable perspective and a major contribution to media & info studies.” Open access! direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Diana Kamin’s fantastic book is out! I happily wrote a blurb “In this remarkable book, Kamin shows how 20thC social networks of paper & touch shaped today's digital image economy. An invaluable perspective and a major contribution to media & info studies.” Open access! direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Picture-Work: How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy
How the image collection, organized and made available for public consumption, came to define a key feature of contemporary visual culture.The origins of today'
direct.mit.edu