Collecting in the Twenty-First Century (EPDF) von Johannes Endres

An interdisciplinary volume of essays identifying the impact of technology on the age-old cultural practice of collecting as well as the opportunities and pitfalls of collecting in the digital era.

Introduction: Collecting in the Digital Age - Christoph Zeller
1: Collecting: Defining the Subject - Johannes Endres
PART I. Spaces of Collecting
2: Collector as Curator: Collecting in the Post-Internet Age - Boris Groys
3: Should Libraries Still Be Charged with Collecting in a Digital Environment? - Michael Knoche
4: Museums and Collecting as/and Media in the Digital Age - Peter M. McIsaac
PART II. Recollection
5: Quality Storage: Collecting as a Technique of Reading - Nikolaus Wegmann
6: Phenomenology of Memory in an Age of Big Data - Clifford B. Anderson
7: Collecting the Cultural Memory of Palmyra - Erin L. Thompson
8: Conservation in the Digital Age - Jessica Walthew
PART III. Virtuality
9: Music and the Limits of Collectibility - Rolf J. Goebel
10: Cat Art and Climate Change: Collecting in the Data Anthropocene - Edward Dawson
PART IV. Economics
11: Doomed to Collect: Dataveillance as Inner Logic of the Internet - Roberto Simanowski
12: Data Collection in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Douglas C. Schmidt
Notes on the Contributors
Index