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John Boswell • Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century

Choice architecture (described as “Libertarian Paternalism” by its advocates) seems to merely dress up authoritarian high-modernism with a thin coat of caution and empirical experimentation. The basic and dangerous “I am more scientific/rational than thou” paternalism is still the central dogma.

Venkatesh Rao • A Big Little Idea Called Legibility

As web3 rightfully peels back the curtain on the processes and systems that control our digital universe, curatorial governance feels like a topic that will shape the next decade of digital life. Curatorial governance refers to the formalized set of processes, rules, and principles that are used to assign different amounts of value to different cul... See more

Tony Lashley • Curatorial Governance

Although inconsistent with the traditional view and its current manifestations, there are undeniably resources, scattered across the history of Western philosophy, for thinking curiosity at the edge, as a practice of connection and a promulgator of relation.

Perry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection

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Margaret Saponaro • Collection Management Basics (Library and Information Science Text Series)

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Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life

While writing would allow far more knowledge to be preserved and accessed, it would also relieve individuals of the burden of sustaining collective memory themselves. Like writing and print, our use of digital media ordinarily generates an archive (as well as a trail of data, often invisible to users but of great value to others). But although digi... See more