Susan Yee, The Archive
1 min readJun 18, 2013
“‘Oh, you’ll love what we’re doing now. You won’t ever have to come here! You won’t ever have to look at these drawings anymore! We’re putting them all in a digital database!’ (…)
If I had accessed this drawing from home, I would never have grasped its dimensions, I would never have known that it was stored separately, carefully rolled, that it was dirty with smudges and fingerprints. The scans for the Web site gave me nothing to touch. (…)
It made the drawings feel anonymous and it made me feel anonymous.”
In: Sherry Turkle, Evocative Objects, MIT Press 2007.
