Gerrit Rietveld Academie Library, Amsterdam, NL
2021-03-15
This encounter will engage with librarian practices, taking the cue from the Rietveld library’s own experience and experiments. It will touch upon digital catalogs and their material conditions, classification systems and their promise of universality, the possible modes of questioning categorization biases and the limits of the politics of correction.We’ll read into queer approaches to the issue of classification put forward by Emily Drabinski, learn how to cope with the absurdity of universality aided by Jorge Luis Borges, and be reminded of the technological elephant in the room by Constant.