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Gli interventi normativi sul Codice dei Beni Culturali e del Paesaggio: l’ingresso degli Uffici Storici dello Stato Maggiore della Difesa e del Comando Generale dell’Arma dei Carabinieri - alcune considerazioni

by Flavio Carbone

published in “Bollettino dell’Archivio dell’Ufficio Storico” a cura dello Stato Maggiore dell'Esercito - Ufficio Storico, a. IX, n. 17-18, gennaio – dicembre 2009, pp. 207-222

"The Cultural Heritage Code reform: the presence of the Defense Staff and of the Carabinieri General Headquarters... more "The Cultural Heritage Code reform: the presence of the Defense Staff and of the Carabinieri General Headquarters Historical Offices. some reflections". In 2006 the Code was reformed and the Defense Staff and of the Carabinieri Headquarters came formerly into law to be considerd as authorized to mantain historical archives by theirselves.

Il Servizio Storico della Difesa francese

by Flavio Carbone

published in Stato Maggiore dell’Esercito, “Bollettino dell’Archivio dell’Ufficio Storico”, a. V, n. 10 luglio/dicembre 2005, pp. 179-195.

The historical service of the French Defense Ministry. The essay was published after few time from the establishment... more The historical service of the French Defense Ministry. The essay was published after few time from the establishment of the French Joint Historical service, try to show how the service started to work and to join the different visions and components of the armed forces.

Gouverner en chemin : roi, officiers royaux et officines sur les routes sous le règne de Pierre le Cérémonieux

by Alexandra Beauchamp

published in "e-Spania" 8 (2009) [on line]

Pierre IV d’Aragon est un souverain itinérant qui, la majeure partie de son règne, dirige les États de la couronne... more Pierre IV d’Aragon est un souverain itinérant qui, la majeure partie de son règne, dirige les États de la couronne d’Aragon en les visitant. Cet article examine comment le roi circule et les officiers administratifs de l’hôtel s’adaptent à sa mobilité pour garantir la continuité du gouvernement royal en chemin. On étudie d’abord les caractéristiques de l’itinérance du roi – royaumes visités, distances parcourues annuellement, étapes effectuées –, en soulignant les raisons présidant à cette itinérance et à sa forme. On montre ensuite combien les officiers qui, par leurs fonctions politiques et administratives, font le gouvernement royal, doivent voyager avec le roi bien que cette itinérance gêne la gestion bureaucratique. On considère enfin le rythme propre de leur itinérance qui concilie obligation de voyager et travail administratif, et l’évolution de leur mobilité, au cours du règne.

Materiali per una storia dell’Arma dei Carabinieri: il Museo Storico, l’Ufficio Storico del Comando Generale e la normativa per la conservazione dei documenti storici

by Flavio Carbone

published in Stato Maggiore dell’Esercito, “Bollettino dell’Archivio dell’Ufficio Storico”, a. IV n. 7-8 gennaio/dicembre 2004, pp. 7-16.

Materials for a Carabinieri Corps history: Historical museum, historical Office of the Carabinieri General... more Materials for a Carabinieri Corps history: Historical museum, historical Office of the Carabinieri General Headquarters and some guidelines on regulation for the preservation of historical papers.
One of the first articles to study and to explain the situation about the internal regulation on preservation of historical papers by Carabinieri historical museum and office

Il “Service historique de la Gendarmerie nationale” francese

by Flavio Carbone

published in Stato Maggiore dell’Esercito, “Bollettino dell’Archivio dell’Ufficio Storico”, a. V n. 9 gennaio/giugno 2005, pp. 7-33.

The Historical service of the French Gendarmerie Nationale. In the essay, the author speaks about the action led by... more The Historical service of the French Gendarmerie Nationale. In the essay, the author speaks about the action led by French Gendarmerie nationale to establish the historical service and the action led by it on GN history and the action in the preservation field of historical archives.

Relazione dal titolo “L’Ufficio Storico del Comando Generale dell’Arma dei Carabinieri. Istituzione, problematiche attuali, sviluppi”

by Flavio Carbone

published in Acta del Convegno di Studi della Commissione Italiana di Storia Militare “Archivi, biblioteche, musei militari. Lo stato attuale, le funzioni sociali, gli sviluppi”, Roma, 19-20 ottobre 2005, pp.70-86.

The General Headquarters of the Carabinieri Historical Office. Institution, problems, development. Paper presented in... more The General Headquarters of the Carabinieri Historical Office. Institution, problems, development. Paper presented in Acta of the congress of the Italian Commission of Military History "Archives, libraries, military museums. The situation, social functions and development

Onward Through the Fog: Computer Game Collection and the Play of Obsolescence

by Jason C. Thompson

Multiple voices, multiple narratives 03-03-2012

by Jez Collins

Family Photography as a phatic construction

by Patri Prieto

Published in 'Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network', Vol. 3, No. 2 (2010)

When the camera became a domestic consumer good, photography was adapted to the needs of private production and... more When the camera became a domestic consumer good, photography was adapted to the needs of private production and reception (Slater, 1991: 50). The family archive contains images of selfportrayal, whose form is oriented towards established patterns, like cartes-de-visite, since they are  received privately as well as in a quasi-public area (wallet, desk in an office etc.).

Family photography gains its performative character by means of its phatic function (Malinowski, 1923/1949: 315-7), inscribed in a historical and socio-cultural frame (Hirsch, M. 1997: 10-2). It actuates in the border between naivety and formality, and these Memory-Pictures (Keppler, 1994: 187) create an impression of reliability and authenticity by their ritualized reception.

The storage in a family archive and the perfomativity of its reception oscillate between the paradigm of scripture and the regime of narration (Langford, 2006: 227). The characterization of the media category ‘family photography’ by means of the phatic function of communication, and the identification of suitable tools for the analysis, are the topics of this article.

The archive and the processor: the internal logic of Web 2.0

by Robert Gehl

New Media and Society, 2011

In Web 2.0, there is a social dichotomy at work based upon and reflecting the
underlying Von Neumann Architecture... more In Web 2.0, there is a social dichotomy at work based upon and reflecting the
underlying Von Neumann Architecture of computers. In the hegemonic Web 2.0
business model, users are encouraged to process digital ephemera by sharing content,
making connections, ranking cultural artifacts, and producing digital content, a mode
of computing I call ‘affective processing.’ The Web 2.0 business model imagines users
to be a potential superprocessor. In contrast, the memory possibilities of computers
are typically commanded by Web 2.0 site owners. They seek to surveil every user
action, store the resulting data, protect that data via intellectual property, and mine
it for profit. Users are less likely to wield control over these archives. These archives
are comprised of the products of affective processing; they are archives of affect, sites
of decontextualized data which can be rearranged by the site owners to construct
knowledge about Web 2.0 users.

YouTube as archive: Who will curate this digital Wunderkammer?

by Robert Gehl

This is a draft given at Media and Transition 5. The paper was published in the International Journal of Cultural Studies.

At first glance, the ease with which individuals can access and contribute to YouTube sets it in direct opposition to... more At first glance, the ease with which individuals can access and contribute to YouTube sets it in direct opposition to large corporate media outlets with their top-down mode of dissemination. However, I argue that, despite these seemingly democratic features, YouTube is better understood not as opposed to traditional corporate media but in the same genealogy as previous archival technologies and techniques. In archives, all content is flattened and has equal weight, so it is up to a curatorial authority to present content to audiences. While YouTube promises to democratize media, its lack of a centralized `curator of display' actually sets the stage for large media companies and entrepreneurs to step into the curatorial role and decide how each object in YouTube's archives will be presented to users. The role of the curator of display is, as of this writing, unresolved. This article thus draws on political economic and historical critiques of collections and archives in order to connect the emergent technologies in YouTube with earlier attempts to organize and present information, objects and images.

The Archive, the Spectral, and Narrative Responsibility in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light

by Andrew van der Vlies

Journal of Southern African Studies 36.3 (September 2010): 583-98. [DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2010.507553]

The State of the Archive

by Leo Enticknap

In 'Archive Zones', no. 81 (Spring 2012), pp. 33-34.

This article, published in the house journal of the Federation of Commercial Audiovisual Libraries (FOCAL) is aimed at... more This article, published in the house journal of the Federation of Commercial Audiovisual Libraries (FOCAL) is aimed at a primarily non-academic readership of archivists, footage researchers and technicians. It discusses the technological landscape facing audiovisual archives, and argues that we are currently in the middle of a 'digitisation gold rush', prompted in part by the impending obsolescence of photographic film.

Geography, film and exploration: women and amateur filmmaking in the Himalayas

by Bradley L. Garrett

Brickell, K. and Garrett, B. L. (2012), Geography, film and exploration: women and amateur filmmaking in the Himalayas. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00505.x

A Boundary Crossings piece about the life of Eileen Healey, a pioneering female mountaineer and filmmaker. A Boundary Crossings piece about the life of Eileen Healey, a pioneering female mountaineer and filmmaker.

Inediti sul Porto Pisano a San Piero a Grado con schemi dell'iconografia portuale

by Fulvia Donati

published in Donato M.M., Ferretti M. (eds.) " 'Conosco un ottimo storico dell'arte...' Per Enrico Castelnuovo. Scritti di allievi e amici pisani", Pisa 2012, pp. 315-321.

Inediti sul Porto Pisano a San Piero a Grado con schemi dell'iconografia portuale

by Fulvia Donati

published in Donato M.M., Ferretti M. (eds.) " 'Conosco un ottimo storico dell'arte...' Per Enrico Castelnuovo. Scritti di allievi e amici pisani", Pisa 2012, pp. 315-321.

Protecting Public Trust: An Archival Wake-Up Call.

by Jason Speck

Journal of Archival Organization, Volume 8, Number 1, Jan.-Mar. 2010, pages 31-53.

While archivists and their repositories depend a great deal on public trust, they do little to cultivate or protect... more While archivists and their repositories depend a great deal on public trust, they do little to cultivate or protect it. All too often, the archival community is only a passive actor in an area where it should be fiercely pro-active. This article aims to show archivists how they can build on the trust they have and avoid many of the problems that have plagued the archival community in recent years, problems that run the risk of irrevocably damaging the profession’s reputation.

Telling Their Stories: Using Outreach to Create Biographies of Alumni Veterans

by Jason Speck

Journal for the Society of North Carolina Archivists, Volume 9, Number 2, Spring 2012, pp 2-19.  Soon to be available via EBSCOHost.

When a donor demanded that one of its treasures be returned, the University of Maryland Archives could have become... more When a donor demanded that one of its treasures be returned, the University of Maryland Archives could have become territorial or defensive.  Instead, the Archives used the request as an opportunity to work more closely with that donor, recognizing that what the donor really wanted was enhanced access.  Out of this potentially difficult situation came the creation of a new student internship program, one which has received widespread positive publicity for its work in creating biographies of alumni veterans who perished in service to their country.  These biographies will eventually serve as the foundation for a website that will provide the access that the donor desires.  This new form of outreach has also benefitted the Archives by raising its profile on campus.

TAMER EL-LEITHY - Living Documents, Dying Archives: Towards a Historical Anthropology of Medieval Arabic Archives (al-Qantara 32 [2011])

by Tamer el-Leithy

Gli scavi italiani di Seleucia al Tigri. L'edificio degli archivi

by Vito Messina

published in 'Atti dei Convegni Lincei 234'. Giornata Lincea in ricordo di Giorgio Gullini, Roma 2007, 111-132.
(draft only)