Document Type
Introduction
Abstract
[First paragraph]
When Justin Scott-Coe and I were co-editing Water: Resources & Discourses—the multigraph for Reconstruction 6.3 (Summer 2006)—and then again, in 2007 and 2008, when I was organizing the first volumes for Reconfigurations and Appositions, I became increasingly fascinated with integrated circuits, especially the Atmel Diopsis 740 (imaged above and at the top of our TOC for this collection) [i]. I began thinking in new ways about technology and about digital media in particular, and I began asking myself new questions about relationships between content and form, figure and ground, data and interfaces, artifacts and archives. [ii] Now, I'm neither a computer engineer nor a programmer, and can write only basic HTML, and really know next to nothing about how the web actually works, or how my touchscreen device is assembled, or, for that matter, about microchips—except that they are astonishingly beautiful and vital archives on fire.
Repository Citation
Howard, W. S.. "Introduction: Archives on Fire: Particle, Wave, and Field." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 16, no. 1, 2016, pp. 1–9. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol16/iss1/1