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Craig Robertson

Craig Robertson is an associate professor in the Program in Media and Screen Studies at Northeastern University. His medium of interest is paper, specifically its relationship to understandings of information and information work. The author of The Passport in America (2010), he is currently writing a book on the emergence of the file cabinet. icon

Virtual Roundtable on “Compression”

By Hansun Hsiung, Stephanie Ann Frampton, Evan Hepler-Smith, & Craig Robertson

The mass of objects lead quiet lives awaiting activation. On shelves or in boxes, as papers or digital files, storage furnishes an ever-present ...

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