Documents are everywhere: No political decision is made, no scientific knowledge is produced, no value is created, without the active use of documents. Nevertheless, researchers in all disciplines often ignore to what extent the production and circulation of documents are a necessary part of their objects of study. Documents contribute in creating life, but they also have lives of their own.
Reading
CORE READINGS:
Asdal, K., 2015. "What is the issue? The transformative capacity of documents," in Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory, 16 (1), pp. 74-90.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1600910X.2015.1022194
Reinertsen, H. & K. Asdal 2019. "Calculating the blue economy: producing trust in numbers with business tools and reflexive objectivity," in Journal of Cultural Economy, 12 (6), pp. 552-570. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2019.1639066
SUGGESTED READING:
Asdal, K. & H. Jordheim 2018. "Texts on the Move: Textuality and Historicity Revisited," in History and Theory 57 (1), pp. 56-74.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/hith.12046
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Deadline: 20 January 2020
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