Field Notes

Close readings of technical systems, institutions, and the assumptions that hold them together.

These essays usually begin with a technical system, an institutional document, or a working practice, then follow the question until the neat account stops carrying the whole truth.

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Field Note #13 ∷ Reading the Seams

A Postmortem on a Postmortem ∷

A close reading of the United States Senate’s Y2K postmortem, and six ways to notice what institutional documents say without meaning to.

A document says more than it means to.

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