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.
New here? Field Note Zero is the statement of work for the series.
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Field Note #13 ∷ Reading the Seams
A Postmortem on a Postmortem ∷ -
Field Note #12 ∷ The Rick & Morty Team Ritual
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Field Note #11 ∷ On Cultivating Trust as a Reflex
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Field Note #10 ∷ On Trusting Trust, Revisited
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Field Note #9 ∷ The Dangling Pointer
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Field Note #8 ∷ The Stack That Should Have Been Networked
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Field Note #7 ∷ On the Need for Updating One’s Priors
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Field Note #6 ∷ A Brief History of Consensus
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Field Note #5 ∷ Westphalia, or How to End a War Without
Anybody Winning
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Field Note #4 ∷ The Sysadmin’s Soliloquy
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Field Note #3 ∷ On Gatekeeping and Curation
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Field Note #2 ∷ What Is Truth?
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Field Note #1 ∷ Kurt Gödel and the Limits of Certainty
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Field Note Zero ∷ Statement of Work
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