THESIS OUTLINE (1029853)
Thesis outline of Kimberley:
Thesis outline of Kimberley:
(Issue #1: Categorisation divide, exclude and therefore may reproduce relations of social domination on what is being categorised.)
The relations formed across different items of an aggregation participate to its understanding as a whole. However, the record of these relations may stumble upon the limits imposed by the use of categorisation which rather operates through the process of division. These limits are specifically threatening within organisation systems related to the cultural field, such as libraries, archives or collections, if we assume that these infrastructures are intended to be inclusive. By dividing instead of connecting, by confining the understanding of something in "what [it] is" instead of "what it does" (Drucker, 2013), there is a risk that the use of categorisation may reproduce relations of social domination on what is being categorised.
(Issue #2: )
The utopia of objectivity and standardisation, tend to dispossess content from their necessary context.
Most of the time, complexities of bodies of information hide under smooth search box
The a "neutral" language which might as well contribute, intentionally or not, to the control and suppression of information. This "neutral" language might be found in the terms used to define categories, but also in the way an ensemble is given to navigate.
The utopia of objectivity and standardisation tend to dispossess/trimmed content from their necessary context. smoothening the complex bodies of information under search box
smoothen, search box/ tool that conceal the complexity, the history, the meaning of an archive, the meaning of why things are hosted together by a structure.
Online, 'submit forms', 'search tools', etc. also often participate to the denial fluid formats.
Online, a flat navigation experience might result from sorting a body of information through means of categorisation. Lists are skimmed linearly, alphabetically, chronologically, hierarchically and in all possible modes. However, these modes of navigation often lack in translating the relations that exist between the contained elements. Binary approaches, such as the simple use of "next" and "previous" buttons to circulate among contents, tend to impose a unique worldview on bodies of information, in other words, a missed opportunity to acknowledge the specificities of a collection.