Archives

2022  40

September  1

I am in here Part 1—What I Learned From Reading Infinite Jest in 92 Days

September 25, 2022 · 6 min · jay l. colbert

July  6

7 Personal knowledge management could be the Modernist urge to reinforce Grand Narratives

July 16, 2022 · 2 min · jay l. colbert

7a Personal knowledge management can come from a state of play

July 16, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

My Zettelkasten workflow from start to finish

July 16, 2022 · 13 min · jay l. colbert

1c What is left behind when you remove photos from a scrapbook?

July 6, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

6a3 Libraries lend the previous experiences of materials

July 6, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

til 2022-07-06 001

July 6, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

June  12

How I use the Logseq Readwise plugin in my Zettelkasten

June 26, 2022 · 10 min · jay l. colbert

12 Favorite Questions

June 21, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

4a Opera queens are embodied personal information management

June 21, 2022 · 2 min · jay l. colbert

6a2 Scrapbooks are a visual, emergent, and generative self-archive of a person’s life and memories

June 21, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

top of mind

June 21, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

til 2022-06-19 001

June 19, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

5b We need an erotics of metadata

June 17, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

6 Trusting our tools means trusting the people who built those tools

June 16, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

6a Using a tool creates a sensual relationship between its user(s) and its creator(s)

June 16, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

6a1 The mind is also a tool which we trust and with which we have a sensual relationship

June 16, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

til 2022-06-13 001

June 13, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

spirituality and information

June 5, 2022 · 2 min · jay l. colbert

May  21

5a The aesthetics of information affects our relationships to it

May 29, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

longing release

May 28, 2022 · 2 min · jay l. colbert

4 Creative works are cyborgs

May 26, 2022 · 2 min · jay l. colbert

5 Metadata work is a sensual experience

May 26, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

1 Archival silence is a problem when its purpose is oppression

May 25, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

1a Archival silence is a good thing when its purpose is protection

May 25, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

1a1 Archival silence is a tool

May 25, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

1b Not all knowledge systems will hear archival silences the same way

May 25, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

2 Metadata surrogates have more value than what they are surrogates of in a capitalist society

May 25, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

2a Metadata surrogates are inherently arborescent

May 25, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

2a1 Metadata surrogates are the tree trunk instead of the end of a branch

May 25, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

3 My transsexual body is a metadata record

May 25, 2022 · 2 min · jay l. colbert

Describing Absence The Complicated Power of Metadata Surrogates in Libraries and Archives

May 17, 2022 · 17 min · jay l. colbert

archives and attics

May 11, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

my digital garden is rhizomatic

May 11, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

archival silence

May 9, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

Obligatory “I Took the Building a Second Brain Course” Post

May 9, 2022 · 7 min · jay l. colbert

about

May 8, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

digital garden

May 8, 2022 · 2 min · jay l. colbert

personal knowledge management

May 8, 2022 · 1 min · jay l. colbert

Zettelkasten

May 8, 2022 · 2 min · jay l. colbert